1907 College Football All-Southern Team

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The 1907 College Football All-Southern Team consists of American football players selected to the College Football All-Southern Teams selected by various organizations for the 1907 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. Fielding Yost selected Bob Blake for his All-America first team. Vanderbilt won the SIAA championship.

Contents

Consensus eleven

The eleven chosen by most selectors includes:

All-Southerns of 1907

Ends

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Bob Blake.

Tackles

Guards

Centers

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Stein Stone

Quarterbacks

Halfbacks

Fullbacks

Key

Bold = consensus choice by a majority of the selectors

= Unanimous selection

C = selected by a consensus of newspapers, as published in Fuzzy Woodruff's A History of Southern Football

DM = All-SIAA eleven selected by Dan McGugin, coach at Vanderbilt University, for Spalding's Football Guide. [6]

H = selected by John Heisman, coach at the Georgia Institute of Technology. [8]

D = selected by Mike Donahue, coach at Auburn University. [9]

NB = selected by former Tennessee player Nash Buckingham in the Memphis Commercial Appeal . [10] [11]

NY = selected by "a well-known New York authority on sports." [12] [13]

See also

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