1904 College Football All-Southern Team

American all-star college football team August 2023 thumb|upright=.7|Henry D. Phillips. The 1904 College Football All-Southern Team consists of American football players selected to the College Football All-Southern Teams selected by various organizations for the 1904 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. In Dan McGugin and Mike Donahue's first year as head coach, Vanderbilt and Auburn shared the SIAA championship, challenging John Heisman's eminence in the South. Composite eleven thumb|upright=.6|Lob Brown. The composite eleven included: Jones Beene, end for Tennessee. He once coached the Chattanooga Mocshttp://www.chattanoogan.com/2008/11/8/138538/Mocs-Big-Football-Win-Over-UT-Was-50.aspx Mocs Big Football Win Over UT Was 50 Years Ago November 8, 2008 B. B. Branton and was also the first coach of the Tennessee Wesleyan Bulldogs.https://archive.org/stream/keepingfaithhist2007bill#page/108/mode/2up/search/Beene Keeping the Faith: A History of Tennessee Wesleyan College 1857-2007 Bill Akins 2007 108 Tennessee Wesleyan College Innis Brown, guard for Vanderbilt. He was also a Rhodes Scholar. Brown was later a referee who often commented on the sport, picking the Constitutions All-Southern team in 1912. Lob Brown, tackle for Georgia Tech. Some publications claim he was Tech's first All-Southern player,http://history.library.gatech.edu/items/show/12188 Georgia Tech Football Team of 1904 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20161010131529/http://history.library.gatech.edu/items/show/12188 2016-10-10 while others claim Jesse Thrash.http://issuu.com/gtathletics/docs/2011_georgia_tech_football_info_guide/149 2011 Georgia Tech Football Media Guide Honus Craig, halfback for Vanderbilt. Dan McGugin once called him the South's greatest athlete and Vanderbilt's greatest halfback.http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth315562/m1/6/zoom/ "Honus" Craig, All-Southern Right Halfback---He Talks April 25, 1909 University of North Texas Abilene Daily Reporter March 8, 2015 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20160304093558/http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark%3A/67531/metapth315562/m1/6/zoom/ March 4, 2016 Puss Derrick, tackle for Clemson. He was captain-elect, "and he has learned to run the ball" wrote former coach Heisman. Humphrey Foy, fullback for Auburn, the undefeated school's lone selection in Mike Donahue's first year. He was injured the year prior. Ed Hamilton, end for Vanderbilt. He coached Vanderbilt basketball in 1903–1904 and 1908–1909. Henry D. Phillips, guard for Sewanee, unanimous selection. Sportswriter Fuzzy Woodruff called him "the greatest football player who ever sank cleated shoes into a chalk line south of the Mason–Dixon line." John Scarbrough, quarterback for Sewanee, unanimous selection. On the dedication of Harris Stadium, one writer noted "The University of the South has numbered among its athletes some of the greatest. Anyone who played against giant Henry Phillips in 1901-1903 felt that he was nothing less than the best as guard and fullback. Anyone who ever saw a punt from the foot of J. W. Scarbrough."https://dspace.sewanee.edu/bitstream/handle/11005/2821/TheSewaneePurplev75n5110657.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y Stadium Has Harris Name The Sewanee Purple November 6, 1957 Willard Steele, halfback for Cumberland, made All-Southern in his first year on the varsity. He was a physician who specialized in diseases of the eye, ear, nose, and throat.https://archive.org/stream/tennesseevolunte04moor#page/454/mode/2up/search/steele Tennessee, The Volunteer State 1769-1923 1923 454–455 4 Stein Stone, center for Vanderbilt. He was selected for the Associated Press Southeast Area All-Time football team 1869-1919 era.https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1242&dat=19690731&id=TkdTAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YoYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2604,3160960 Kingsport Post U-T Greats On All-Time Southeast Team July 31, 1969 Composite overview Henry D. Phillips and John Scarbrough were both unanimous selections. Name Position School First-team selections Henry D. Phillips Guard Sewanee10 John Scarbrough Quarterback Sewanee 10 Innis Brown Guard Vanderbilt 8 Jones Beene End Tennessee 7 Ed Hamilton End Vanderbilt 6 Lob Brown Tackle Georgia Tech 6 Stein Stone Center Vanderbilt 6 Honus Craig Halfback Vanderbilt 6 Humphrey Foy Fullback Auburn 6 Puss Derrick Tackle Clemson 5 Willard Steele Halfback Cumberland 5 Dan Blake Halfback Vanderbilt 3 W. Wilson End Georgia Tech 2+ Irish Graham Tackle Vanderbilt 1+ Hillsman Taylor Tackle Vanderbilt 1+ Ephraim Kirby-Smith Tackle Sewanee 1+ George Watkins Center Sewanee 1+ C. E. Elgin Center Nashville 1+ Ick Bryan Halfback Vanderbilt 1+René A. Messa Halfback LSU 1+Biddle Halfback Nashville 1+Don Robinson Halfback Texas 1+Gene Oliver Halfback South Carolina 1+Joe Holland Fullback Clemson 1+Sam Y. Parker Fullback Tennessee 1+ All-Southerns of 1904 EndsJones Beene, Tennessee (C, H-1, WRT-1, NB, WJE, EC)Ed Hamilton, Vanderbilt (C, H-2 [as fb], WRT-2 [as fb], NB, WJE, EC) Billy Wilson, Georgia Tech (C, H-1, WRT-1) Newman Townsend, North Carolina (JLD, WK, WSK) Arthur Wilson, North Carolina A & M (WK, WSK) Owsley Manier, Vanderbilt (H-2, WRT-2) Arthur Sullivan, Georgia (H-2, WRT-2) Tackles thumb|upright=.6|Puss Derrick.Lob Brown, Georgia Tech (C, H-1, WRT-1, EC)Puss Derrick, Clemson (C, H-1, WRT-1, EC) Irish Graham, Vanderbilt (C, H-2, WRT-2, NB, WJE) Walter Council, Virginia (JLD, WK, WSK) Matt Mahoney, Georgetown (JLD, WK [as g], WSK [as g]) Oliver Gardner, North Carolina A & M (WK, WSK) Hillsman Taylor, Vanderbilt (C, NB) Ephraim Kirby-Smith, Sewanee, (C, WJE) Bill Streit, Auburn (H-2, WRT-2) GuardsHenry Phillips†, Sewanee (C, H-1, WRT-1, JLD, NB, WJE, EC)Innis Brown, Vanderbilt (C, H-1, WRT-1, NB, WJE, EC) Branch Johnson, Virginia (JLD, WK, WSK) Harvey Sartain, Alabama (H-2, WRT-2) Braswell, Auburn (H-2) William Pitt Moon, Auburn (WRT-2) Centers thumb|upright=.6|Stein Stone.Stein Stone (C, H-1, WRT-1, JLD, EC) George Watkins, Sewanee (C) C. E. Elgin, Nashville (C, NB, WJE) Roach Stewart, North Carolina (WK, WSK) Red Smith, Cumberland (H-2, WRT-2) QuarterbacksJohn Scarbrough†, Sewanee (C, H-1, WRT-1, NB, WJE, EC) John Pollard, Virginia (JLD, WK, WSK) Frank Kyle, Vanderbilt (H-2, WRT-2) Halfbacks thumb|upright=.6|Honus Craig.Honus Craig, Vanderbilt (C, H-1, WRT-1, NB, WJE, JLD, EC)Willard Steele, Cumberland (C, H-1, WRT-1, GR, EC) Dan Blake, Vanderbilt (C, GR, WJE, NB) Hunter Carpenter, North Carolina (College Football Hall of Fame) (JLD [as fb], WK, WSK) Hub Hart, Georgetown (JLD [as e], WK, WSK) Ick Bryan, Vanderbilt (C) René A. Messa, LSU (C) Biddle, Nashville (C) Don Robinson, Texas (C) Gene Oliver, South Carolina (C) Hammond Johnson, Virginia (JLD) Auxford Burks, Alabama (H-2, WRT-2) FullbacksHumphrey Foy', Auburn (C, H-2 [as hb], WRT-1, WJE, EC) Joe Holland, Clemson (C, H-1, WRT-2) Sam Y. Parker, Tennessee (C, NB) LeRoy Abernethy, North Carolina A&M (WK, WSK) Key Bold = Composite selection † = Unanimous selection C = received votes for a composite selection put together by John de Saulles using the teams of Grantland Rice, W. R. Tichenor, Heisman, and others.https://books.google.com/books?id=3gs7AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA161 161 The Official National Collegiate Athletic Association Football Guide Football in the South 1904 H = selected by John Heisman, coach at Georgia Institute of Technology. He had a first and second team.The Atlanta Constitution Coach Heisman Names All Southern Team December 4, 1904 J. W. Heisman March 5, 2015 5 Newspapers.com https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1924608// WRT = selected by W. R. Tichenor in the Atlanta News. GR = selected by Grantland Rice in the Atlanta Journal. NB = selected by former Tennessee player Nash Buckingham in the Memphis Commercial Appeal.http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/atlnewspapers/id:aga1907-4812 Some Past All-Southerns Atlanta Georgian December 9, 1907 12 March 5, 2015 Digital Library of GeorgiaJune 2026 InternetArchiveBot WJE = selected by William J. Ewing in the Nashville American.https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6939640/the_tennessean/ Nashville American Wm. J. Ewing, Jr. 7 November 30, 1904 All-Southern Foot Ball Team, 1904 October 8, 2016 Newspapers.com JLD = selected by John de Saulles.http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/HistArchive/?p_product=EANX&p_theme=ahnp&p_nbid=E57W4FHFMTQxMDkzNjg1OS45NzI2Mjg6MToxMzoxMzIuMTk4LjUwLjEz&p_action=doc&s_lastnonissuequeryname=18&d_viewref=search&p_queryname=18&p_docnum=2&p_docref=v2:11210D30DA68B248@EANX-11402AC510B5CD30@2417055-11402AC5662BF900@2-11402AC7257320B0@De%20Saulles%27%20Choice%20for%20the%20All-Southern The State De Saulles' Choice for the All-Southern July 28, 1905 EC = selected by Edwin Camp, in Illustrated Sporting News.https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1959546// March 10, 2015 7 Newspapers.com On Gridiron In South The Washington Post December 25, 1904 WK = selected by Willis Keinholz, head coach at the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts.https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1807&dat=19041214&id=MA0tAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3GkEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1089,191080 The Cavalier Daily March 5, 2015 Google news December 14, 1904 An All-Southern Football Team WSK = selected by W. S. Kimberly.https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1960265// The Morning Post December 11, 1904 March 10, 2015 5 For All Southern Football Team Newspapers.com The All-Southern Eleven December 25, 1904 11 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1916725// March 3, 2015 Newspapers.com The Charlotte Observer References 30em Category:College Football All-Southern Teams All-Southern team