1907 College Football All-Southern Team

American all-star college football team August 2023 160px|thumb|Honus Craig The 1907 College Football All-Southern Team consists of American football players selected to the College Football All-Southern Teams selected by various organizations for the 1907 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. Fielding Yost selected Bob Blake for his All-America first team. Vanderbilt won the SIAA championship. Consensus eleven The eleven chosen by most selectors includes: Bob Blake, end for Vanderbilt, was a lawyer and Rhodes Scholar.https://books.google.com/books?id=e8s2AQAAMAAJ&q=Enoch&pg=PA328 Vanderbilt–A University of the New South Outing 64 320–331 1914 Henry Jay Case He was selected for the Associated Press Southeast Area All-Time football team 1869-1919 era.https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1891&dat=19690727&id=2eRGAAAAIBAJ&pg=2256,3526388 Gadsden Times July 27, 1969 All-Time Football Team Lists Greats Of Past, Present Google news Sam Costen, quarterback for Vanderbilt. Costen was rated as Barrett's superior though Costen spent a good part of the year injured.https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2193429// Abilene Daily Reporter Behind the Line December 14, 1907 6 April 12, 2015 Newspapers.com 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 One report says "When Craig was confronted with the above formidable title yesterday by a reporter whose business it is to know such things, he blushed like a girl and tried to show why Dan McGugin's judgment is not always to be trusted." In Craig's opinion, Bob Blake was the South's greatest player. 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 Frank Faulkinberry, tackle for Sewanee, later a coach. Aubrey Lanier, halfback for Sewanee. McGugin said of Lanier in 1907 that he was "a star of purest ray, and came near winning the Vanderbilt game by his brilliant dashes after receiving punts." Kemp Lewis end for Sewanee Lawrence Markley, fullback for Sewanee. Horace Sherrell, guard for Vanderbilt. Against Kentucky State in 1907; "On one of Craig's long runs Sherrell, who was only a sub last year, kept pace with the fast half back all the way, knocking down three tacklers en route to the goal."Atlanta Constitution Kentucky State Is Slaughtered https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2326732/the_atlanta_constitution/ 8 October 6, 1907 May 1, 2015 Newspapers.com Lex Stone, tackle for Sewanee, coached football and basketball at the University of Tennessee. He was the school's first basketball coach. Stein Stone, center for Vanderbilt, an all-time great at Vanderbilt who coached football one year at Clemson. He was an engineer. All-Southerns of 1907 Ends thumb|upright=.65|Bob Blake. Bob Blake†, Vanderbilt (C, DM, H, D, NB, NY) Kemp Lewis, Sewanee (C, DM, H, D, NB) Henry Cabell Maddux Jr., Virginia (NY) Tackles Lex Stone†, Sewanee (C, DM, H, D, NB, NY) J. R. Davis, Georgia Tech (C, DM, H) Mac McLaurin, Clemson (H [as g], D) R. T. Gaston, Clemson (H [as g]) Sadler, North Carolina A & M (NY) Guards Frank Faulkinberry, Sewanee (C, DM, D, NB [as T]) Horace Sherrell, Vanderbilt (C, DM, NB) Roscoe Word, Tennessee (NB) J. G. Davis, Auburn (D) Harwood Beebe, North Carolina A & M (NY) Hoss Hodgson, VPI (NY) Centers thumb|upright=.6|Stein Stone Stein Stone, Vanderbilt (C, DM, H, D, NB) William Gloth, Virginia (NY) Quarterbacks Sam Costen, Vanderbilt (C, DM, NY [as hb]) Walter Barrett, Sewanee (H, D) Sam Honaker, Virginia (NY) Halfbacks Honus Craig†, Vanderbilt (C, DM, H, D, NB, NY) Aubrey Lanier, Sewanee (C, DM, H [as fb], D, NB [as fb]) Frank Shipp, Sewanee (NB) Vin Campbell, Vanderbilt (H) Fullbacks Lawrence Markley, Sewanee (C, DM, D, NB [as qb]) L. E. Hughes, Auburn (D) George Dutcher, Georgetown (NY) 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 = All-SIAA eleven selected by Dan McGugin, coach at Vanderbilt University, for Spalding's Football Guide.https://books.google.com/books?id=Vws7AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA73 71–75 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association Foot Ball Dan McGugin Dan McGugin The Official National Collegiate Athletic Association Football Guide National Collegiate Athletic Association 1907 H = selected by John Heisman, coach at the Georgia Institute of Technology.Coach Heisman Selects An All-Southern Eleven Atlanta Constitution https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1909954// Newspapers.com March 3, 2015 December 1, 1907 J. W. Heisman D = selected by Mike Donahue, coach at Auburn University.Orange and Blue All Southern Coach M. J. Donahue 26 March 5, 2015 archive.org December 9, 1907 https://archive.org/stream/19071209#page/n47/mode/2up/search/%22all+southern%22 NB = selected by former Tennessee player Nash Buckingham in the Memphis Commercial Appeal.http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/atlnewspapers/id:aga1907-4800 Memphis Commercial Appeal's All-Southern Atlanta Georgian December 7, 1907 Digital Library of Georgia March 5, 2015 December 10, 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20191210034056/https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/regions/atlanta/?docId=bookreader/aga/aga1907/aga1907-4800.mets.xml dead http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/HistArchive/?p_product=EANX&p_theme=ahnp&p_nbid=W56L55MLMTQxMDQwMDg5OS41MDIwOTc6MToxMzoxMzIuMTk4LjUwLjEz&p_action=doc&s_lastnonissuequeryname=13&d_viewref=search&p_queryname=13&p_docnum=1&p_docref=v2:1223BCE5B718A166@EANX-122A74D22E58AB78@2417925-122813246597D720@46-13BB3B5400390B50@All%20Southern%20Team%20Pick%20Leaves%20Out%20Louisiana%2C%20Although%20State%20University%20Seems%20Entitled%20to%20Place%2C%20and Times-Picayune December 15, 1907 All Southern Team Pick Leaves Out Louisiana NY = selected by "a well-known New York authority on sports."http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/HistArchive/?p_product=EANX&p_theme=ahnp&p_nbid=W56L55MLMTQxMDQwMDg5OS41MDIwOTc6MToxMzoxMzIuMTk4LjUwLjEz&p_action=doc&s_lastnonissuequeryname=13&d_viewref=search&p_queryname=13&p_docnum=10&p_docref=v2:11260DC9BB798E30@EANX-11348E3D8CCBB220@2417926-11348E3F269F7B50@9-11348E4259CE00B8@All%20Southern%20Eleven All-Southern Eleven December 16, 1907 Charlotte Observerhttp://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1907-12-08/ed-1/seq-10/#date1=1836&index=7&rows=20&words=ALL+All+All-Southern+ALL-SOUTHERN+football+FOOTBALL+SOUTHERN+Southern&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1922&proxtext=%22all+southern%22+football&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1 An All-Southern Football Team December 8, 1907 New York Tribune Chronicling America March 5, 2015 See also 1907 College Football All-America Team References 30em Category:College Football All-Southern Teams All-Southern team