The 1912 College Football All-Southern Team consists of American football players selected to the College Football All-Southern Teams selected by various organizations for the 1912 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. Lew Hardage was selected for Walter Camp's third-team All-American. Vanderbilt won the SIAA championship. Georgetown won the SAIAA championship.
Innis Brown, a referee throughout the south, and captain of Vanderbilt's 1905 championship team, was hired to select the team of the Atlanta Constitution . The Constitution's editor Dick Jemison also selected a team. Former Georgia player and captain and then assistant Harold Ketron selected a team. Georgia Tech head coach John Heisman as usual picked one also. Former Mississippi head coach Nathan Stauffer selected an All-Southern team for Collier's Weekly .
The composite All-Southern eleven formed by "consolidated pick" of ten sporting writers culled by the Atlanta Constitution editor Dick Jemison included:
Lew Hardage, Bob McWhorter, and Hugh Morgan were unanimous All-Southern selections.
Name | Position | School | First-team selections |
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Lew Hardage | Halfback | Vanderbilt | 10 |
Bob McWhorter | Halfback | Georgia | 10 |
Hugh Morgan | Center | Vanderbilt | 10 |
Enoch Brown | End | Vanderbilt | 8 |
Tom Brown | Tackle | Vanderbilt | 8 |
Ammie Sikes | Fullback | Vanderbilt | 8 |
B. J. Lamb | Tackle | Auburn | 8 |
Jenks Gillem | End | Sewanee | 7 |
Hargrove Van de Graaff | End | Alabama | 6 |
Rube Barker | Tackle | Ole Miss | 6 |
David Peacock | Guard | Georgia | 6 |
Lee Tolley | Quarterback | Sewanee | 4 |
Big Thigpen | Guard | Auburn | 2 |
Jim Stoney | Guard | Sewanee | 2 |
F. C. Burns | Guard | Auburn | 2 |
John Henderson | Guard | Georgia | 2 |
Guts Meadows | Guard | Auburn | 2 |
Kirk Newell | Halfback | Auburn | 2 |
Paul A. Reule | Fullback | Mississippi A & M | 2 |
R. N. MacCallum | Guard | Sewanee | 1 |
Herman Daves | Guard | Vanderbilt | 1 |
Rip Major | Quarterback | Auburn | 1 |
Alf McDonald | Quarterback | Georgia Tech | 1 |
Ralph Fletcher | Quarterback | Ole Miss | 1 |
Bold = Composite selection
† = Unanimous selection
C = received votes for a composite All-Southern eleven from one of ten sports writers compiled by Dick Jemison of the Atlanta Constitution , called the "consolidated pick." The ten came from Innis Brown, John Heisman, Jemison, Julian Murphey, Harold Ketron, The Birmingham Age-Herald, Atticus Mullin, The Montgomery Advertiser , the Memphis Commercial-Appeal and the Nashville Democrat. Votes for multiple positions are combined. Most chose Rube Barker as a guard in this composite. [11]
IB = selected by Innis Brown, captain of 1905 Vanderbilt football team and referee throughout the South. [4]
NS = selected by Nathan P. Stauffer of Collier's Weekly . [12] [13] [14] It had a first and second team, denoted by the numbers 1 or 2.
SS = selected by Sam Sarokin, sporting editor for the New Orleans Item . [12]
H = selected by John Heisman, coach at the Georgia Institute of Technology, as published in Fuzzy Woodruff's A History of Southern Football 1890-1928.
HK = selected by Harold Ketron. [15]
BAH = selected by the Birmingham Age-Herald. [16]
NT = posted in the Nashville Tennessean . [17]
AT = an All-Southern team which played against an All-Texas squad. [18]