1908 College Football All-Southern Team

American all-star college football team August 2023 thumb|160px|Lew Hardage at Auburn, 1908. The 1908 College Football All-Southern Team consists of American football players selected to the College Football All-Southern Teams selected by various organizations for the 1908 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. Consensus eleven The eleven selected by a majority of selectors included: Vaughn Blake, end for Vanderbilt. One of the prominent Vanderbilt Blake family, he was later an FBI agent involved in the capture of Alvin Karpis.http://vault.fbi.gov/barker-karpis-gang/bremer-kidnapping/bremer-kidnapping-part-171-of%20459- Barker/Karpis Gang Federal Bureau of Investigation 18 C. C. Countess, center for Alabama. The school's first All-Southern player.http://www.rolltide.com/news/2007/6/26/All_Conference_Selections.aspx All Conference Selections J. R. Davis, tackle for Georgia Tech; Davis was known as "Twenty percent" because he was considered twenty percent of the team's worth.https://books.google.com/books?id=cxziB-y0NQcC&pg=PT35 Echoes of Georgia Football: The Greatest Stories Ever Told 35 Triumph Books September 2006 9781617490484 Vanderbilt coach Dan McGugin wrote, "He has one glaring fault—a tendency to tackle around the eyebrows. Otherwise he is a splendid foot ball man. He weighs two hundred pounds, is never hurt, never fumbles, bucks a line hard and furnishes excellent interference. He was the strength and stay of Tech."Spalding's Football Guide 1909 75 Shawnee Mission, Kansas, NCAA Publishing Service https://archive.org/stream/officialfootball1909nati#page/75 Frank Faulkinberry, tackle for Sewanee, later a coach at Middle Tennessee State. Lewie Hardage, halfback for Auburn, had his breakout season in his first year. Fuzzy Woodruff labeled him the South's "fastest back of the 1910-1920 decade".A History of Southern Football 1890–1928 Woodruff Fuzzy 2 1928 96 James L. Harris, guard for Sewanee. also played tackle and running back. Louis Hasslock, tackle for Vanderbilt. Before Vanderbilt played Michigan, Hasslock had been on duty at Reelfoot Lake with a militia who were to guard against night riders. When he learned he could be granted a leave of absence if he were to join his football team, he walked a distance of twenty miles through a country infested with night riders, and caught a train at Union City.http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86069133/1908-10-30/ed-1/seq-8/ The Winchester News October 30, 1908 Walks Many Miles To Join Football TeamOn October 19, 1908, night riders at Reelfoot Lake, Tennessee kidnapped and murdered Captain Quentin Rankin, an attorney and shareholder in the West Tennessee Land Company. The murder made national news, with coverage emphasizing the night riders' demand for fishing rights. In response, Governor Malcolm Patterson called out the militia to suppress the uprising.https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1496/ Uneasy Waters: The Night Riders at Reelfoot Lake, Tennessee, 1908 Electronic Theses and Dissertations 15 December 2012 Grove Jama Walker Leach, halfback for Tennessee. McGugin noted "All things considered, Leach was perhaps the best football player of the year in Dixie." Lawrence Markley, fullback and captain for Sewanee. McGugin wrote of Markley, "He has always been a very stubborn man on the defense, effective on a short plunge, and his cool head has helped to steady his team through many a crisis." Ray Morrison, quarterback for Vanderbilt, was the best player on a team of sophomores.https://archive.org/stream/fottballsgreates00pope#page/340/mode/2up Football's Greatest Coaches 341 Edwin Pope Edwin Pope archive.org March 8, 2015 1955 Walker Reynolds, end for Auburn, was the first cousin of Walker Reynolds Tichenor. All-Southerns of 1908 Ends Vaughn Blake†, Vanderbilt (C, H-1, DM, NB, EW, VA) Walker Reynolds, Auburn (C, GR-2) Silas Williams, Sewanee (H-1, DM) Del Pratt, Alabama (EW) Carlton Elliott, Virginia (VA) Stricker Coles, Clemson (H-2) Chip Robert, Georgia Tech (H-2) C. Logan Eisele, Sewanee (GR-2) Tackles Frank Faulkinberry†, Sewanee (C, H-1, DM, NB, VA) J. R. Davis, Georgia Tech (C, H-1, DM) William Evans, Sewanee (GR-2, NB, EW) Oren Noblett, LSU (EW) Cecil Garrett, North Carolina (VA) W. P. Brown, Tennessee (H-2, GR-2) Henry Thomas Burks, Alabama (H-2) Guards thumb|right|140px|Nathan Dougherty. Louis Hasslock, Vanderbilt (C, H-1, DM, NB, EW) James L. Harris, Sewanee (C, H-2, GR-2) Nathan Dougherty, Tennessee (College Football Hall of Fame) (H-1, DM, NB) Willie Hillman, LSU (EW) Van Dyke, North Carolina A & M (VA) Hoss Hodgson, VPI (VA) T. C. Locke, Auburn (H-2, GR-2) Centers C. C. Countess, Alabama (C) Fatty McLain, Vanderbilt (GR-2, DM) J. G. Davis, Auburn (H-1) Willie Hillman, LSU (NB, EW [as g]) Robert L. Stovall, LSU (EW) William Gloth. Virginia (VA) Quarterbacks Ray Morrison, Vanderbilt (C, H-2, GR-2, NB [as e]) Tom McLure, Auburn (H-1, DM) Doc Fenton, LSU (College Football Hall of Fame) (NB, EW) Sam Honaker, Virginia (VA) Halfbacks Walker Leach, Tennessee (C, H-1, DM, NB, EW) Lewie Hardage, Auburn (C, H-2, GR-2, DM) Ike Knox, Ole Miss (H-1) Mike Lally, LSU (NB, EW) Art Shea, Georgetown (VA) Forest Stanton, Virginia (VA) Aubrey Lanier, Sewanee (H-2, GR-2) Fullbacks Lawrence Markley†, Sewanee (C, H-1, DM, NB, EW, VA) Clarence McCollum, Tennessee (H-2, GR-2) Key Bold = consensus choice by a majority of the selectors † = Unanimous selection C = selected by a consensus of newspapers, as published in Fuzzy Woodruff's A History of Southern Football. DM = selected by Dan McGugin, coach at Vanderbilt University.http://diglib.lib.utk.edu/fbpro/main.php?bid=251&pg=10&catid=52 1909 Football Program - UT vs Central University of Kentucky October 2, 1909 December 23, 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20141223072915/http://diglib.lib.utk.edu/fbpro/main.php?bid=251&pg=10&catid=52 December 23, 2014 dead H = selected by John Heisman, coach at Georgia Institute of Technology.http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/atlnewspapers/id:aga1909-4572 12 March 5, 2015 Digital Library of Georgia Not News, But Views Percy Whiting November 24, 1909 with help from Grantland Rice. Both Rice and Heisman had separate second teams.https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5052158/the_tennessean/ The Tennessean 5 November 29, 1908 April 25, 2016 Newspapers.com Grantland Rice Sewanee Gets More Than Any Other One Team In This Group NB = selected by Nash Buckingham in the Memphis Commercial Appeal.http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/atlnewspapers/id:aga1909-4620 12 Atlanta Georgian All SIAA Teams of Past Six Years March 5, 2015 Digital Library of Georgia November 27, 1909 EW = selected by Edgar Wingard, coach at Louisiana State University.https://www.newspapers.com/clip/15116717/the_timesdemocrat/ Wingard's All Southern 10 December 2, 1908 November 14, 2017 Newspapers.com The Times-Democrat VA = selected by University of Virginia trainers.http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/atlnewspapers/id:aga1908-4463 12 Virginia Makes Claim On The Championship December 18, 1908 March 5, 2015 Digital Library of Georgia Atlanta Georgian See also 1908 College Football All-America Team Notes References Category:College Football All-Southern Teams All-Southern team