1902 College Football All-Southern Team

American all-star college football team August 2023 thumb|upright=.7|Reynolds Tichenor The 1902 College Football All-Southern Team consists of American football players selected to the College Football All-Southern Teams selected by various organizations for the 1902 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. Clemson won the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) championship, though Virginia was often ranked as best team in the south.e. g. http://homepages.cae.wisc.edu/~dwilson/rfsc/champs/Southern.txt Champions of the South regardless of conference affiliation Fuzzy Woodruff's A History of Southern Football records the first All-Southern team as in 1902. Woodruff relates "The first selections that had any pretense of being backed by a judicial consideration were made by W. Reynolds Tichenor, old-time Auburn quarterback, who had kept in intimate contact with football through being a sought after official."https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1842&dat=19680426&id=MxQsAAAAIBAJ&sjid=rcYEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4713,3782658&hl=en Ronnie Thomas One Way To Break The Monotony Times Daily April 26, 1968 Tichenor's eleven thumb|upright=.6|Hope Sadler Reynolds Tichenor's eleven as posted in Fuzzy Woodruff's A History of Southern Football includes: Sandy Beaver, guard for Georgia. He was once head of Riverside Military Academy.https://books.google.com/books?id=LYEjvos3vD8C&pg=PA172 A Pictorial History of the University of Georgia F. N. Boney 2000 172 9780820321981 Marvin M. Dickinson, halfback for Georgia, later coached for his alma mater. James C. Elmer, guard for Auburn. Tradition dictates many publications list Elmer as the school's first All-Southern selection. Jock Hanvey, fullback for Clemson. He started every game Harold Ketron, center for Georgia, known as "War Eagle." Ketron was known as quite a physical player, one source reporting he pulled hair and spat tobacco juice in faces.https://books.google.com/books?id=Jxpqm0Da4JQC&pg=PA36 The Sporting World of the Modern South 36 Patrick B. Miller 2002 9780252070365 Another writer claims "There have been many of the old players who have followed the Georgia games long after graduation, but none of them with a record of more loyalty than the "War Eagle."'http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/cgi-bin/ebind2html.pl/reed_c17?seq=122 Athletics at the University from the Beginning Through 1947 2006-12-21 Reed Thomas Walter c. 1949 History of the University of Georgia dlg.galileo.usg.edu 3466 Joseph Lee Kirby-Smith, tackle for Sewanee, son of Edmund Kirby-Smith. He later moved to Jacksonville, Florida as a practicing dermatologist and gaining distinction throughout Florida and the south. John Maxwell, quarterback for Clemson. He started every game.http://www.clemson.edu/cedp/press/pubs/king/king_supplement.pdf 33 Fighting Like Cats and Dogs Kyle King Henry D. Phillips, guard for Sewanee. Sportswriter Fuzzy Woodruff called him "the greatest football player who ever sank cleated shoes into a chalk line south of the Mason-Dixon line." Frank Ridley, end for Georgia. One account of Ridley reads "Ridley's first year on the team he played this position so well that Coach Heisman named his as the All-Southern end. He is quick and active and never hesitates to tackle a man, seldom being blocked."https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1958274// Atlanta Constitution 11 March 10, 2015 November 6, 1902 Georgia Will Send Great Team To Oppose Clemson He was later a physician and surgeon. Hope Sadler, end for Clemson. One publication reads "Vetter Sitton and Hope Sadler were the finest ends that Clemson ever had perhaps."The Anderson Daily-Intelligencer http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn93067669/1915-01-21/ed-1/seq-2/print/image_681x648_from_3411%2C3430_to_4381%2C4354/ Vetter Sitton Clemson Coach January 21, 1915 Carl Sitton, end for Clemson. He also played baseball. All-Southerns of 1902 Ends thumb|upright=.6|Carl Sitton Carl Sitton, Clemson (WRT [as hb], WA, AC, JLD-s, WAL-2) Frank Ridley, Georgia (WRT, WA, AC, H) Hope Sadler, Clemson (WRT) Albert Cox, North Carolina (JLD, WAL-1) Thomas Bronston, Virginia (JLD, WAL-1) Lois Thompson, Kentucky U. (JLD-s, WAL-2) Tackles Joseph Lee Kirby-Smith, Sewanee (WRT, JLD-s, WAL-2) Nash Buckingham, Tennessee (AC) Jesse Thrash, Georgia Tech (AC) Branch Johnson, Virginia (JLD, WAL-1) Walter Council, Virginia (JLD, WAL-1) Sally Miles, VPI (JLD-s, WAL-2) W. B. "Bully" Young, Georgia Tech (AC-s) Guards thumb|upright=.6|Henry D. Phillips Henry D. Phillips, Sewanee (College Football Hall of Fame) (WRT, AC) James C. Elmer, Auburn (WRT, AC-s, JLD-s, WAL-2) Sandy Beaver, Georgia (WRT [as t], AC-s) Hampton Lemoine, Sewanee (AC, JLD, WAL-1) Frank Foust, North Carolina (JLD, WAL-1) William Spates, Virginia (JLD-s) Centers Harold Ketron, Georgia (WRT, WA, AC) Percy Given, Georgetown (JLD, WAL-1) Roach Stewart, North Carolina (JLD-s) H. Dorsey Waters, Virginia (WAL-2) Quarterbacks John Maxwell, Clemson (WRT) Frank M. Osborne, Sewanee (WA, AC) John Pollard, Virginia (JLD, WAL-2) Louis Graves, North Carolina (JLD-s, WAL-1) Sax Crawford, Tennessee (AC-s) Halfbacks thumb|upright=.55|Jock Hanvey thumb|upright=.55|John Edgerton Marvin Dickinson, Georgia (WRT, AC) A. H. Douglas, Tennessee (AC) Earle Holt, North Carolina (JLD, WAL-1) Joe Reilly, Georgetown (JLD-s, WAL-2) T. Watkins, Virginia (JLD-s, WAL-2) James Forman, Alabama (AC-s) Fullbacks Jock Hanvey, Clemson (WRT) John Edgerton, Vanderbilt (WA, JLD [as hb], WAL-1 [as hb]) Hunter Carpenter, VPI (College Football Hall of Fame) (JLD, WAL-1) A. T. Sublett, Furman (AC) Frank C. Harris, Virginia (JLD-s, WAL-2) H. A. Allison, Auburn (AC-s) Key Bold = Tichenor's selection WRT = selected by W. R. Tichenor, posted in Fuzzy Woodruff's A History of Southern Football WA = selected by W. A. Reynolds.https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1924588// Newspapers.com March 5, 2015 Atlanta Constitution December 7, 1902 Football Season of '02 Reviewed By Expert W. A. Reynolds 25 AC = selected by the Atlanta Constitution.https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1924591/the_atlanta_constitution/ Newspapers.com March 5, 2015 9 From Southeastern College Teams The Constitution Selects An Eleven Atlanta Constitution December 1, 1902 It had substitutes, denoted with a small S. JLD = selected by UVA coach John L. DeSaulles.Spalding's Football Guide 111 Southern Foot Ball John L. DeSaulles 1902 It had substitutes, denoted with a small S. H = selected by John Heisman. WAL = selected by W. A. Lambeth for Collier's Weekly.https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1945324// The Times December 27, 1902 6 All Southern Team Newspapers.com March 8, 2015 It had a first and second team. References 30em Category:College Football All-Southern Teams All-Southern team