The 1917 College Football All-Southern Team consists of American football players selected to the College Football All-Southern Teams selected by various organizations for the 1917 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. Georgia Tech won the SIAA and the south's first national championship. Walker Carpenter and Everett Strupper were the first two players from the Deep South selected first-team All-American.
The composite All-Southern eleven formed by the selection of 7 coaches and sporting writers included:
Seven players were unanimous All-Southern. [2]
| Name | Position | School | First-team selections |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moon Ducote | End | Auburn | 7 |
| Walker Carpenter | Tackle | Georgia Tech | 7 |
| Bill Fincher | Tackle | Georgia Tech | 7 |
| Pete Bonner | Guard | Auburn | 7 |
| Pup Phillips | Center | Georgia Tech | 7 |
| Everett Strupper | Halfback | Georgia Tech | 7 |
| Joe Guyon | Fullback | Georgia Tech | 7 |
| Albert Hill | Quarterback | Georgia Tech | 6 |
| Eben Wortham | Fullback | Sewanee | 4 |
| Alf Adams | End | Vanderbilt | 3 |
| Tram Sessions | Guard | Alabama | 3 |
| Buck Flowers | Halfback | Davidson | 3 |
| Dan Boone | End | Alabama | 2 |
| Shorty Guill | End | Georgia Tech | 2 |
| Georgie King | End | Davidson | 1 |
| Wooly Grey | Guard | Davidson | 1 |
| Carey Robinson | Guard | Auburn | 1 |
| Mutt Gee | Guard | Clemson | 1 |
| Otto Colee | Guard | Tulane | 1 |
Bold = Composite selection
* = Consensus All-American
† = Unanimous selection
C = composite selection picked by seven football writers in the South. [3] [4] The seven were Dick Jemison, John Heisman, Morgan Blake, Fred Bodeker, George Watkins, Fred Digby, and Blinkey Horn.
DJ = selected by Dick Jemison, sporting editor for the Atlanta Constitution. [3] [5] [6]
MB = selected by Morgan Blake, sporting editor for the Atlanta Georgian. [7]
FD = selected by Fred Digby, sporting editor for the New Orleans Item. [3]
ZN = selected by Zipp Newman, assistant sporting editor for the Birmingham News . [3]
HB = selected by "Happy" Barnes of Tulane University, in the New Orleans Item. [3]
H = selected by John Heisman, coach of Georgia Institute of Technology. [3]
FB = selected by Fred Bodeker of the Birmingham Age-Herald. [8]
NT = selected by the Nashville Tennessean . [9]
CM = selected by "Country" Morris, assistant coach at Clemson College. [10]
HW = selected by former Sewanee player Henry Watkins. [11]
GT = selected by the Technique, Georgia Tech's student newspaper. It had two players selected as "utility", denoted with a u. [12]
HS = selected by Hugh Sparrow of the Nashville Banner. [13]
John William Heisman was a player and coach of American football, baseball, and basketball, as well as a sportswriter and actor. He served as the head football coach at Oberlin College, Buchtel College, Auburn University, Clemson University, Georgia Tech, the University of Pennsylvania, Washington & Jefferson College, and Rice University, compiling a career college football record of 186–70–18.
Allen Ralph "Buck" Flowers, Jr. was an American college football player who was a halfback for the Davidson Wildcats football team of Davidson College in 1917 and for the Georgia Tech Golden Tornado football team of the Georgia School of Technology in 1918, 1919 and 1920.
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