1914 College Football All-Southern Team

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The 1914 College Football All-Southern Team consists of American football players selected to the College Football All-Southern Teams selected by various organizations for the 1914 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season.

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Tennessee and Auburn both had claims to the SIAA championship. It was Tennessee's first championship of any kind. Washington and Lee and Virginia both had claims to the SAIAA championship. Ted Shultz of Washington & Lee was selected an All-American by the Philadelphia Public Ledger.

Composite eleven

The composite All-SIAA eleven compiled from a total of seven sports writers, coaches, and others by Zora Clevenger, University of Tennessee athletic director:

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Farmer Kelly of Tennessee.

Composite overview

The composite All-SIAA overview. Boozer Pitts was the only unanimous selection.

NamePositionSchoolFirst-team selections
Boozer Pitts Center Auburn 7
Goat Carroll End/Fullback Tennessee 6
Farmer Kelly Tackle Tennessee5
Bully Van de Graaff Tackle/End Alabama 5
Big Thigpen Guard Auburn5
David Paddock Quarterback Georgia 5
Hunter Kimball Tackle Mississippi A&M 5
Bull Kearley EndAuburn4
Mush Kerr GuardTennessee4
Rabbit Curry Quarterback/HalfbackVanderbilt4
Ammie Sikes Halfback/FullbackVanderbilt4
Baby Taylor Guard/TackleAuburn3
Lee Tolley Quarterback/HalfbackSewanee3
Rus Lindsay FullbackTennessee3
Jim Senter End Georgia Tech 2
Robbie Robinson EndAuburn2
Bob Taylor Dobbins Tackle Sewanee 2
Jimmie Hicks GuardAlabama2
Red Harris FullbackAuburn2
Josh Cody TackleVanderbilt1
Shorty Schilletter Tackle Clemson 1
Kirby Lee Spurlock TackleMississippi A&M1
J. S. PattonHalfbackGeorgia Tech1

All-Southerns of 1914

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Bull Kearley of Auburn.

Ends

Tackles

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Bully Van de Graaff of Alabama.

Guards

Centers

Quarterbacks

Halfbacks

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Rabbit Curry of Vanderbilt.

Fullbacks

Key

Bold = Composite selection

= Unanimous selection

ZC = received votes a composite All-SIAA compiled from a total of seven sports writers, coaches, and others by Zora Clevenger, University of Tennessee athletic director. [14] [15] The seven were coaches Clevenger and Pontius of Tennessee, Innis Brown, John Heisman, Dick Jemison, Innis Brown, Jack Nye, W. G. Foster, and Bill Streit.

C = received selections in a composite of five selectors: Atlanta Constitution , the Atlanta Journal , the Birmingham Ledger , the Birmingham Age-Herald , and the Atlanta Sunday American. [16]

IB = selected by Innis Brown, sporting editor for the Atlanta Journal . [14] [17]

DJ = selected by Dick Jemison, sporting editor for the Atlanta Constitution. [14] [17] He also had an All-SIAA team, used in the above composite.

HC = selected by Harris G. Cope, coach at University of the South. [14]

EG = selected by Ewing Gillis of the New Orleans Item. [14]

WL = selected by W. A. Lambeth, professor at the University of Virginia, "from the opinion of local observers and critics" [14]

H = selected by John Heisman, published in Fuzzy Woodruff's A History of Southern Football 1890-1928. [18]

DVG = selected by D. V. Graves, coach at the University of Alabama. [19]

UT = selected by coach Clevenger and "Butch" Pontius of the University of Tennessee. [17]

WGF = selected by W. G. Foster of the Chattanooga Times. [17]

See also

References

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