1933 All-SEC football team

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The 1933 All-SEC football team consists of American football players selected to the All-Southeastern Conference (SEC) chosen by various selectors for the 1933 college football season. This was the inaugural SEC season; the All-SEC teams now taking precedence over the All-Southern team. The Associated Press (AP) All-SEC teams are the only ones which become a part of official conference records.^[1] The Alabama Crimson Tide won the conference, the only blemish on its conference record a scoreless tie with the Ole Miss Rebels. Tennessee halfback Beattie Feathers was voted SEC Player of the Year.

American football, referred to as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, which is the team controlling the oval-shaped football, attempts to advance down the field by running with or passing the ball, while the defense, which is the team without control of the ball, aims to stop the offense's advance and aims to take control of the ball for themselves. The offense must advance at least ten yards in four downs, or plays, and otherwise they turn over the football to the defense; if the offense succeeds in advancing ten yards or more, they are given a new set of four downs. Points are primarily scored by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone for a touchdown or kicking the ball through the opponent's goalposts for a field goal. The team with the most points at the end of a game wins.

The Southeastern Conference (SEC) is an American college athletic conference whose member institutions are located primarily in the Southern part of the United States. Its fourteen members include the flagship public universities of eleven states, two additional public land grant universities, and one private research university. The conference is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. The SEC participates in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I in sports competitions; for football, it is part of the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), formerly known as Division I-A.

The 1933 college football season saw the Michigan Wolverines repeat as winners of the Knute Rockne Memorial Trophy as national champion under the Dickinson System.

All-SEC selections

Ends

David Ariail , Auburn (AP-1, UP-1)
Graham Batchelor, Georgia (AP-1, UP-1)
J. R. Slocum, Georgia Tech (AP-2, UP-2)
Joe Rupert, Kentucky (AP-2, UP-2)
Don Hutson, Alabama (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-3)
Bart Herrington, Ole Miss (AP-3)

David William "Gump" Ariail was a college football player.

Joseph Frank "Joe" Rupert was an American college football, basketball, and track athlete and coach for the Kentucky Wildcats. He was a Navy veteran of World War II, and after his sporting career was a chairman of the board of the Rupert-Hager-Cromwell-Agency in Ashland.

Donald Montgomery Hutson was a professional American football player and assistant coach in the National Football League (NFL). He played as a split end and spent his entire eleven-year professional career with the Green Bay Packers. Under head coach Curly Lambeau, Hutson led the Packers to four NFL Championship Games, winning three: 1936, 1939, and 1944.

Tackles

Jack Torrance, LSU (AP-1, UP-1)
B. W. Williams, Georgia Tech (AP-3, UP-1)
Bob Tharpe, Georgia Tech (AP-1)
Bill Lee, Alabama (AP-2, UP-2)
Hal Starbuck, Florida (AP-2)
F. G. McCollum, Auburn (UP-2)
Jesse Flowers, Ole Miss (AP-3)

John Torrance was an American shot putter and American football player. Torrance broke the shot put world record several times in 1934, his eventual best mark of 17.40 m remaining unbeaten until 1948. At the 1936 Summer Olympics he placed fifth.

William Earl Lee Sr. was an American football player.

Guards

Leroy Moorehead, Georgia (AP-1, UP-1)
Thomas Hupke , Alabama (AP-1, UP-1)
J. B. Ellis, Tennessee (AP-2, UP-2)
W. H. Chambliss, Auburn (AP-2, UP-2)
Bowe, Vanderbilt (AP-3)
D. Wilcox, Georgia Tech (AP-3)

Thomas George Hupke was an American football player. He played college football at the University of Alabama from 1930 to 1933 and was selected as an All-American in 1933. During the four years Hupke played for the Crimson Tide, the team compiled a record of 34–4–1. He subsequently played professional football for six years with the Detroit Lions (1934–1937) and the Cleveland Rams (1938–1939). He was a member of the 1935 Detroit Lions team that won the 1935 NFL Championship Game. In September 1959, Hupke died in Detroit at age 48 after a long illness.

Centers

Talmadge Maples , Tennessee (AP-1, UP-1)
Homer Robinson, Tulane (AP-2, UP-2)
Welcome Shearer, Florida (AP-3)

Talmadge Robert "Tal" "Sheriff" Maples was an American football player and once assistant Postmaster General of the United States. Maples was a prominent center for the Tennessee Volunteers, captain of the 1933 team.

Quarterbacks

Ripper Williams , Auburn (AP-1, UP-1)
Rand Dixon, Vanderbilt (AP-2)
Byron Griffith, Georgia (UP-2)

George "Ripper" Williams was a college football player. He was a prominent quarterback for the Auburn Tigers, leading the team to an undefeated 1932 season and captain of the 1933 team. Williams is a member of the Colbert County Sports Hall of Fame.

Paul Rand Dixon was a decorated World War II veteran, chairman and commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission of the United States from 1961 to 1969 and again briefly in 1976. After his chairmanship, Dixon continued to serve as a commissioner of the FTC until 1981. Dixon was on the FTC staff from 1930 to 1957, except for Naval service during World War II. Between 1957 and 1961, Dixon served as counsel and staff director for the U.S. Senate Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee. Dixon served in the U.S. Navy from 1942-1945. He eventually earned the rank of lieutenant commander. In 2014 a famous dictum of his, from a ruling in a multi-level marketing pyramid scheme case, "an intolerable potential to deceive," was newly immortalized in the title of a book, Downline... an intolerable potential to deceive, by E. Robert Smith.

Halfbacks

Beattie Feathers , Tennessee (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1, UP-1)
Joseph Grant, Georgia (AP-2, UP-1)
Dixie Howell, Alabama (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1)
Floyd Roberts, Tulane (AP-2)
Abe Mickal, LSU (College Football Hall of Fame) (UP-2)
Casy Kimbrell, Auburn (AP-3)
Homer Key, Georgia (AP-3)
Bob Herrington, Miss. St. (AP-3)
George Chapman, Georgia (AP-3)

Fullbacks

Ralph Kercheval, Kentucky (AP-1, UP-2 [as hb])
D. J. Phillips, Georgia Tech (AP-2, UP-2)

Key

AP = Associated Press.^[2]^[3]

UP = United Press ^[4]

Bold = Consensus first-team selection by both AP and UP

References

↑ "Tide Places Three Stars on Twu Unites". The Anniston Star. December 2, 1952. p. 9. Retrieved June 11, 2015– via Newspapers.com.
↑ "Feathers Is Easy Choice". The Evening Independent. December 1, 1933. p. 14. Retrieved May 26, 2015– via Newspapers.com.
↑ the Associated Press. "Southeastern Loop All-Star Team Named". The Palm Beach Post.
↑ Garnett D. Horner (December 1, 1933). "Feathers Is U. P. All-Southeastern: Kercheval Is Able To Make Second". Middlesboro Daily News. p. 2. Retrieved June 11, 2015– via Newspapers.com.

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[1] "Tide Places Three Stars on Twu Unites". The Anniston Star. December 2, 1952. p. 9. Retrieved June 11, 2015– via Newspapers.com.

[2] "Feathers Is Easy Choice". The Evening Independent. December 1, 1933. p. 14. Retrieved May 26, 2015– via Newspapers.com.

[3] the Associated Press. "Southeastern Loop All-Star Team Named". The Palm Beach Post.

[4] Garnett D. Horner (December 1, 1933). "Feathers Is U. P. All-Southeastern: Kercheval Is Able To Make Second". Middlesboro Daily News. p. 2. Retrieved June 11, 2015– via Newspapers.com.