1949 All-SEC football team

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The 1949 All-SEC football team consists of American football players selected to the All-Southeastern Conference (SEC) chosen by various selectors for the 1949 college football season. Tulane won the conference.

American football Team field sport

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.

Southeastern Conference College athletics conference of universities in the southern United States

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 1949 college football season finished with four teams that were unbeaten and untied-- Notre Dame, Oklahoma, California, and Army had won all their games at season's end. Notre Dame, however, was the overwhelming choice for national champion in the AP Poll, with 172 of 208 first place votes. The Fighting Irish did not participate in the New Year's Day bowl games, which were played on January 2, 1950.

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Bud Sherrod American football player

Horace Monroe "Bud" Sherrod, Jr. was a professional American football end in the National Football League for the New York Giants in 1952. He played college football at the University of Tennessee.

Bucky Curtis American gridiron football player

Ernest Jackson "Bucky" Curtis, Jr. was an American football player for the Vanderbilt Commodores of Vanderbilt University. He led the nation in several receiving categories in 1950 including a 29.3 yard average per reception, and was selected as an All-American. The team's quarterback was Bill Wade. Curtis was then drafted in the second round of the 1951 NFL draft by the defending NFL champion Cleveland Browns. Curtis made the Browns for the 1951 season, but was drafted for service in the Korean War before the season started. Curtis served his four years in the Navy, expecting to be signed by the Browns for the upcoming 1955 season. When he and the Browns had trouble reaching a contract, he signed with the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League. He was elected to the Vanderbilt Athletics Hall of Fame in 2010.

Tackles

Robert Gain was an American football player who played 13 seasons for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League (NFL), and also played in the Canadian Football League (CFL). He played in five Pro Bowls in the space of seven years with the Browns and was a first-team All-Pro selection once and a second-team selection seven times.

Paul Lea was an American football player and physician.

Guards

Terrell Edwin "Ted" Daffer was an American football player. He played college football for the Tennessee Volunteers football team at the guard position from 1949 to 1951. He was selected by the American Football Coaches Association, the Associated Press, the Football Writers Association of America and the International News Service (INS) as a first-team guard on the 1950 College Football All-America Team. The following year, he was again selected by the INS and the Newspaper Enterprise Association as a first-team player on the 1951 All-America Team. Daffer was selected by the Chicago Bears in the 21st round of the 1952 NFL Draft. After two years of service in the United States Army, he played for the Bears during the 1954 NFL season. He later played for the Ottawa Rough Riders in the Canadian Football League.

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James W. Kynes American football player, lineman, lawyer, Florida Attorney General

James Walter Kynes, Jr., nicknamed Jimmy Kynes, was an American college and professional football player, lawyer, political appointee and corporate executive. Kynes also served as the Florida Attorney General.

Quarterbacks

Travis Tidwell American football player and coach

Travis Vaughn Tidwell was an American football player and coach. Tidwell played high school football for Woodlawn High School. He played college football at Auburn University and then in the National Football League with the New York Giants. He was the Senior Bowl MVP in 1950. Tidwell led Auburn over a defeat of Alabama in 1949. Zipp Newman wrote "There has never been a sweeter Auburn victory in all the 58 years of football on the Plains than the Tigers 14-13 win over Alabama." Tidwell stood 5 foot 10 inches and weighed 185 pounds.

Babe Parilli American football player

Vito "Babe" Parilli was an American football player. He played quarterback for five seasons in the National Football League and three in the Canadian Football League in the 1950s, and then in the American Football League for all ten seasons in the 1960s.

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Key

AP = Associated Press. [1]

UP = United Press [2]

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

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References

  1. ↑ "All-S. E. C. Dominated By Wave, Tigers, Wildcats". The Monroe News Star. November 24, 1949. p. 12. Retrieved May 30, 2015– via Newspapers.com. Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg
  2. ↑ "Bama, Auburn Have One Each On Annual Pick". The Anniston Star. November 29, 1949. p. 10. Retrieved June 6, 2015– via Newspapers.com. Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg
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