The 1925 College Football All-Southern Team consists of American football players selected to the College Football All-Southern Teams selected by various organizations for the 1925 Southern Conference football season.
In the annual Rose Bowl game, the SoCon champion Alabama Crimson Tide defeated the heavily favored PCC champion Washington Huskies 20–19 and became the first southern team ever to win a Rose Bowl. It is commonly referred to as "the game that changed the south." [1] Alabama therefore was named a national champion.
The composite All-Southern eleven compiled by the Associated Press (AP) included:
Peggy Flournoy received the most votes, 31 of the possible 32.
Name | Position | School | First-team selections |
---|---|---|---|
Peggy Flournoy | Halfback | Tulane | 31 |
Johnny Mack Brown | Halfback | Alabama | 24 |
Pooley Hubert | Quarterback | Alabama | 21 |
Doug Wycoff | Fullback | Georgia Tech | 21 |
Bill Buckler | Guard | Alabama | 20 |
Irish Levy | Guard | Tulane | 17 |
Bob Rives | Tackle | Vanderbilt | 15 |
Edgar C. Jones | Halfback/Quarterback | Florida | 15 |
J. G. Lowe | End | Tennessee | 13 |
Goldy Goldstein | Tackle | Florida | 11 |
Smack Thompson | End | Georgia | 10 |
James Kay Thomas | End | Washington & Lee | 9 |
Amos Kent | Center | Sewanee | 9 |
Owen Poole | Center | Georgia Tech | 6 |
C = received votes for a composite All-Southern eleven compiled by the Associated Press . [10]
S = selected by Herman Stegeman, athletic director at the University of Georgia. [11]
NEB = selected by Norman E. Brown. [12] It had a first and second team.
DM = selected by Dan McGugin, head coach at Vanderbilt University. [13] It had a first and second team.
TQ = selected by The Technique, Georgia Institute of Technology's student newspaper. [14]
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Allison Thomas Stanislaus "Pooley" Hubert was an American football player and coach of football and basketball. Regarded as one of the South's greatest college football stars, he played quarterback for coach Wallace Wade's football teams at the University of Alabama from 1922 to 1925, leading Alabama to its first bowl game, the 1926 Rose Bowl, known as "the game that changed the South." Wade called him "undoubtedly one of the greatest football players of all time." Hubert later became the head football and basketball coach at the Mississippi State Teachers College—now known as University of Southern Mississippi—and Virginia Military Institute. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a player in 1964.
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