1935 All-SEC football team

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The 1935 All-SEC football team consists of American football players selected to the All-Southeastern Conference (SEC) chosen by various selectors for the 1935 college football season. The LSU Tigers won the conference, posting an undefeated conference record.

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 1935 college football season was the last one before the Associated Press writers' poll was used in selecting the national champion. The Dickinson System, consisting of the calculations of University of Illinois Professor Frank Dickinson, crowned Southern Methodist University (SMU) as the best in the nation. A poll of newspaper writers, taken at year's end—by United Press rather than the AP—concluded that Minnesota was the best in the nation.

All-SEC selections

Ends

Willie Geny , Vanderbilt (AP-1, AU-1)
Gaynell Tinsley , LSU (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1, AU-1)
Gene Rose, Tennessee (AP-2, AU-1)
Chuck Gelatka, Miss. St. (AP-2, AU-1)
Bear Bryant, Alabama (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-3)
Warren Barrett, LSU (AP-3)

Charles F. "Willie" Geny was a college football and basketball player for the Vanderbilt Commodores. He was football's Southeastern Conference player of the year in 1935. As captain of the Commodores, he led them to their first defeat of rival Tennessee in nine years. He was inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame in 1985. He later sold insurance. Geny persuaded Billy Joe Adcock to attend Vanderbilt.

Gaynell Tinsley football player from the United States

Gaynell Charles "Gus" Tinsley was an American football end and coach. He played professionally for the Chicago Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL) from 1937 to 1938 and in 1940. He attended Louisiana State University, where he was a consensus All-American for the LSU Tigers football team in 1935 and 1936. In 1937 he was drafted by the Cardinals, with whom he was an All-NFL selection in 1937 and 1938. During his three years in the NFL, Tinsley set or tied NFL single-season records with 674 receiving yards in 1937 and 41 pass receptions in 1938. He later served as the head football coach at LSU from 1948 to 1954. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1956.

Roy Eugene "Gene" Rose was an American football end in the National Football League (NFL) for the New York Giants. He played college football at the University of Tennessee and was drafted in the fourth round of the 1936 NFL draft.

Tackles

James Whatley, Alabama (AP-1, AU-1)
Haygood Paterson, Auburn (AP-1, AU-1)
Justin Rukas, LSU (AP-2, AU-2)
Sterling Richardson, Ole Miss (AP-2)
Lefty Eubanks, Georgia Tech (AU-2)
Stanley Nevers, Kentucky (AP-3)
Ranny Throgmorton, Vanderbilt (AP-3)

Justin Rukas was an American football player. He was a prominent tackle and guard for the LSU Tigers football team. He graduated with a degree in geology. Rukas played professionally for the Brooklyn Dodgers of the National Football League (NFL) for one season.

Guards

Frank Johnson, Georgia (AP-1)
Middleton Fitzsimmons, Georgia Tech (AP-1)
Frank Gantt, Auburn (AP-2, AU-1)
Osborn Helveston, LSU (AU-1)
Tarzan White, Alabama (AP-3, AU-2)
Samuel Brown, Vanderbilt (AP-2)
Leroy Moorehead, Georgia (AU-2)
William Stone, Miss. St. (AP-3)

Arthur Pershing "Tarzan" White was an American football offensive lineman in the National Football League for the New York Giants and Chicago Cardinals. He played college football at the University of Alabama and was drafted in the second round of the 1937 NFL Draft.

Centers

Walter Gilbert , Auburn (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1, AU-1)
Kavanaugh Francis, Alabama (AP-2, AU-2)
Marvin Stewart, LSU (AP-3)

Walter "Walt" Gilbert was a college football player from Fairfield, Alabama.

Marvin Christopher "Moose" Stewart was a collegiate American football player. He attended Louisiana State University, where he was a lineman for the LSU Tigers football team. He was a third-team All-Southeastern Conference (SEC) selection in 1935 and a second-team All-SEC selection in 1936. He was selected in the second round of the 1937 NFL draft by the Chicago Bears but did not play professionally. Stewart was inducted into the LSU Athletic Hall of Fame as a charter member in 1937.

Quarterbacks

Riley Smith , Alabama (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1, AU-1)
Rand Dixon, Vanderbilt (AP-2, AU-2)
Barney Mintz, Tulane (AP-3)

Riley Henry Smith was an American college and professional football player who was a quarterback for the Washington Redskins of the National Football League (NFL) during the late 1930s. He played college football for the Alabama Crimson Tide football team of the University of Alabama, where he was recognized as a consensus All-American. After his NFL career ended, he became a coach.

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

Ike Pickle, Miss. St. (AP-1, AU-1)
Jesse Fatherree , LSU (AP-1, AU-1)
Ray Hapes, Ole Miss (AP-3, AU-1 [as fb])
Robert Davis, Kentucky (AP-2, AU-2)
Rad Rodgers, Ole Miss (AP-2)
John Bond, Georgia (AU-2)
Billy Chase, Florida (AP-3)

Fullbacks

Bill Crass, LSU (AP-1, AU-2)
Abe Mickal, LSU (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-2)
Dutch Konemann, Georgia Tech (AP-3)

Key

AP = compiled by the Associated Press from coaches and sportswriters.^[1]^[2]^[3]

AU = selected by The Plainsmen, Auburn's semi weekly paper.^[4]

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References

↑ "L.S.U. Gets Three Stars On Mythical Honor Roll". The Miami News. December 4, 1935.
↑ "The 1935 All-Southeastern Eleven". The Evening Independent. December 4, 1935.
↑ "New Set of Stars Placed On All-Southeastern Team". Herald-Journal. December 5, 1935.
↑ "Sportana". The Anniston Star. December 2, 1935. p. 8. Retrieved June 11, 2015– via Newspapers.com.

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[1] "L.S.U. Gets Three Stars On Mythical Honor Roll". The Miami News. December 4, 1935.

[2] "The 1935 All-Southeastern Eleven". The Evening Independent. December 4, 1935.

[3] "New Set of Stars Placed On All-Southeastern Team". Herald-Journal. December 5, 1935.

[4] "Sportana". The Anniston Star. December 2, 1935. p. 8. Retrieved June 11, 2015– via Newspapers.com.