1924 College Football All-Southern Team

American all-star college football team August 2023 thumb|upright=.65|Hek Wakefield of Vanderbilt. The 1924 College Football All-Southern Team consists of American football players selected to the College Football All-Southern Teams selected by various organizations for the 1924 Southern Conference football season. Alabama won the SoCon championship. Centre defeated Alabama and claims a Southern championship, even though Centre was never a member of the Southern Conference. Composite eleven thumb|upright=.75|Doug Wycoff of Georgia Tech. The composite All-Southern eleven compiled by the Atlanta Journal included: Goldy Goldstein, tackle for Florida. Goldstein was one of the first Jews to ever play for the Gators.http://www.jewsinsports.org/profile.asp?sport=football&ID=126 Goldstein, Erving "Goldy" jewsinsports.com September 5, 2014 He played professionally for the Newark Bears of the first American Football League (AFL), and was later an attorney practicing in Miami Beach. Pooley Hubert, halfback for Alabama, inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1964. While he was his team's best passer, he was also heralded as one of the game's best ever defensive backs.http://www.prideofthetide.com/hof_hubert.htm Allison "Pooley" Hubert Coach Wallace Wade called him "undoubtedly one of the greatest football players of all time." Edgar C. Jones, quarterback for Florida, later athletic director at his alma mater and a banker. Fats Lawrence, center for Auburn. An all-time Auburn team notes ""Big" Thigpen", "Tubby" Lockwood, and "Fats" Lawrence were man-mountains." Clyde Propst, center for Alabama, known as "Shorty," second team All-American selection of Lawrence Perry. He later coached, once head coach at Howard and Southwestern. Gil Reese, "the Tupelo flash", halfback for Vanderbilt, scored in the 16–0 victory over Minnesota. He was selected a third-team All-American by Norman E. Brown. Bob Rives, tackle for Vanderbilt. Rives was considered the greatest football player ever to come out of Hopkinsville High School in Hopkinsville, Kentucky.https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=266&dat=19560302&id=Q-IrAAAAIBAJ&sjid=5mUFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2080,4018399 Kentucky New Era Rites Saturday For Bob Rives March 2, 1956https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=266&dat=19691007&id=Vu8rAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EAYGAAAAIBAJ&pg=1254,651267 Well, You Don't Win Them All Kentucky New Era October 7, 1969 He played professionally for the Newark Bears and later was for several years a referee for high school football games throughout Tennessee. Jim Taylor, tackle for Georgia, also selected a third-team All-American by Norman E. Brown.Norman E. Brown Brown Picks All-American Team for the Journal Hamilton Evening Journal 1924-12-08 Smack Thompson, end for Georgia. Brother of Charlie Thompson. Henry Wakefield, end for Vanderbilt, known as "Hek," second-team Walter Camp All-American. As an interim team captain following the loss of both Kelly and Bomar to injuries, he scored twice in the Commodores' 13–0 win over the Auburn Tigers, and defeated the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets 3–0 with a 37-yard drop-kick field goal.Vanderbilt Football 2014 Fact Book https://web.archive.org/web/20140819084829/http://www.dothanfirst.com/media/lib/204/8/d/c/8dc53287-cc01-4aa0-a1e3-83cefe778bbf/14vanderbilt_guide.pdf 2014-08-19 , Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, pp. 125, 137, 142, 151 (2014). Retrieved August 17, 2014. He also played every minute of an inspired game against Minnesota. Doug Wycoff, fullback for Georgia Tech. Coach Alexander recalled "The work of Douglas Wycoff against Notre Dame two years in succession was brilliant in the extreme, as was his plunging against Penn State when we defeated them twice."Kansas City Star 1926 Forty-Five Yards for Georgia Tech W. A. Alexander William Alexander (coach) http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/CFHSN/CFHSNv07/CFHSNv07n4i.pdf 2015-05-22 https://web.archive.org/web/20150213170521/http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/CFHSN/CFHSNv07/CFHSNv07n4i.pdf 2015-02-13 dead Wycoff played professionally for various teams in both the AFL and NFL including with the Newark Bears. He was inducted into the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in 1978. All-Southerns of 1924 Ends thumb|upright=.6|Bob Rives Hek Wakefield*, Vanderbilt (C, C2, AS, NB-1, CH-1, FH, UGA, VU, BE) Smack Thompson, Georgia (C, C2, CH-2, UGA, BE) Cliff Lemon, Centre (NB-2, AS, CH-1, VU, BE) G. B. Ollinger, Auburn (NB-1) King, Georgia Tech (FH) James Kay Thomas, Washington (BE) Ab Kirwan, Kentucky (CH-2, BE) Joe Tilghman, Furman (NB-2) Tackles Bob Rives, Vanderbilt (C, C2, NB-1, CH-1, FH, VU, BE) Jim Taylor, Georgia (C, C2, NB-1, CH-2, FH, UGA, VU, BE) Red Simmons, Mercer (NB-1, UGA) Walter Skidmore, Centre (AS, CH-2) Minos Gordy, Centre (CH-1) Curtis Luckey, Georgia (NB-2) Samuel Oscar Graham, VPI (NB-2) Cy Williams, Florida (BE) Noisy Grisham, Auburn (BE) Guards thumb|upright=.6|Goldy Goldstein of Florida. Goldy Goldstein, Florida (C, C2, AS, NB-2, FH, UGA, BE) Ben Compton, Alabama (C2, CH-1, BE) Ike Joselove, Georgia (NB-2, UGA, VU) Walt Godwin, Georgia Tech (VU, BE) Bill Buckler, Alabama (NB-1) J. Lawrence, Tulane (NB-1) George Gardner, Georgia Tech (VU) Earl McFaden, Auburn (VU) Fatty Lawrence, Vanderbilt (VU, BE) Lynch, Centre (CH-2) Irish Levy, Tulane (BE) Centers Fats Lawrence, Auburn (C [as g], C2, AS [as g], CH-2 [as g], FH, VU, BE) Shorty Propst, Alabama (C, AS [as g], NB-1, CH-1 [as g], FH [as g], UGA, VU [as g], BE) Ed Kubale, Centre (AS, NB-1, CH-1, BE) Quarterbacks thumb|upright=.6|Edgar C. Jones of Florida. Edgar C. Jones, Florida (C, C2, AS [as hb], FH, UGA [as hb], VU, BE) Herb Covington, Centre (AS, NB-1, UGA, BE) Scrappy Moore, Georgia (CH-2) Grant Gillis, Alabama (NB-2) A. C. Carter Diffey, Virginia (BE) Lester Lautenschlaeger, Tulane (BE) Halfbacks Pooley Hubert, Alabama (College Football Hall of Fame) (C, C2, CH-1, FH, BE) Gil Reese, Vanderbilt (C, C2, AS, NB-1, CH-2, VU, BE) Brother Brown, Tulane (NB-1, CH-2 [as fb], VU, BE) Ark Newton, Florida (FH, BE) Martin Kilpatrick, Georgia (NB-2, UGA) David Rosenfeld, Alabama (NB-2) Johnny Mack Brown, Alabama (CH-2) Fullbacks Doug Wycoff, Georgia Tech (C, C2, AS, NB-1, FH, UGA, VU) Tom Ryan, Vanderbilt (VU [as hb], BE) James D. Thomason, Georgia (NB-2) Eddie Cameron, Washington & Lee (BE) Key Bold = Consensus selection * = Consensus All-American C = Composite selections from the Atlanta Journal. http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/HistArchive/?p_product=EANX&p_theme=ahnp&p_nbid=D4EJ51UHMTQwOTk3NTY4OC42OTUzOTk6MToxMzoxMzIuMTk4LjUwLjEz&p_action=doc&s_lastnonissuequeryname=17&d_viewref=search&p_queryname=17&p_docnum=2&p_docref=v2:1223BCE5B718A166@EANX-128A0E6F8A83024F@2424128-12836B6318A9E3ED@11-128A710C5DCC29E9@ Times-Picayune Atlanta Journals Picks S. I. C. All Star Team December 8, 1924 C2 = A second composite selection. Both were drawn by writers from Birmingham, Atlanta, Louisville, Nashville, Memphis, Chattanooga, New Orleans, Montgomery, Shreveport, Knoxville, Jacksonville, Columbus, and Columbia.Two All-Dixie Teams Ignore Virginia Players Washington Post December 2, 1924 AS = selected by Anniston coaches and The Anniston Star. NB = selected by Norman E. Brown.https://www.newspapers.com/clip/15059772/the_greenville_news/ 13 December 5, 1924 The Greenville News Brown Picks An All-Southern Eleven November 11, 2017 Newspapers.com CH = selected by Happy Chandler, scout for the Centre Colonels football team.https://www.newspapers.com/clip/15059661/the_courierjournal/ All-Southern Eleven Picked By Chandler 9 December 13, 1924 The Courier-Journal November 12, 2017 Newspapers.com FH = selected by Fox Howe, coach of AMI.https://www.newspapers.com/clip/15059882/the_anniston_star/ All-Southern 12 December 7, 1924 The Anniston Star November 12, 2017 Newspapers.com UGA = received most votes at their position by the players of the Georgia Bulldogs football team.https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1938616/harrisburg_telegraph/ Harrisburg Telegraph December 4, 1924 20 Game's For The Sake Lawrence Perry Newspapers.com March 7, 2015 VU = received votes at their position by the players of the Vanderbilt Commodores football team. BE = Billy Evans's "Southern Honor Roll"https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2870551/iowa_city_presscitizen/ December 24, 1924 11 Billy Evans Honor Roll Iowa City Press-Citizen July 23, 2015 Newspapers.com See also 1924 College Football All-America Team References 30em Category:1924 Southern Conference football season Category:College Football All-Southern Teams