1906 College Football All-Southern Team

American all-star college football team August 2023 thumb|upright=1.6|The 1906 Vanderbilt Commodores The 1906 College Football All-Southern Team consists of American football players selected to the College Football All-Southern Teams selected by various organizations for the 1906 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. For some, the SIAA champion 1906 Vanderbilt Commodores football team made up the entire team.https://books.google.com/books?id=WjToAAAAMAAJ&q=%22all+southern%22 Daniel Earle McGugin Coach & Athlete 28 1965 42 Google books It would produce eight of the composite eleven. Owsley Manier was selected by Walter Camp third-team All-American. Vanderbilt won the SIAA championship. Consensus eleven thumb|upright=.6|Bob Blake thumb|upright=.6|Dan Blake The All-Southern eleven representing the consensus of newspapers as published in Fuzzy Woodruff's A History of Southern Football 1890-1928 included: Bob Blake, end for Vanderbilt, unanimous selection, was a lawyer and Rhodes Scholar. Blake made the drop kick to beat Carlisle, "the crowning feat of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association season." 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 Dan Blake, halfback for Vanderbilt, unanimous selection, brother of Bob. He later coached. Lob Brown, end for Georgia Tech, captain-elect who helped Tech to its first defeat over Auburn.Creating the Big Game: John W. Heisman and the Invention of American Football https://archive.org/details/creatingbiggamej00umph registration Wiley Lee Umphlett 92 1992 Walter K. Chorn, guard for Vanderbilt, was a lawyer and one time insurance superintendent of Missouri.https://books.google.com/books?id=gE8jAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP441 Chorn is Head of the Missouri State The National Underwriter 22 9 March 7, 1918 Google books Clyde R. Conner, guard for Mississippi, was a prominent lawyer of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and once United States Commissioner.https://books.google.com/books?id=oplOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA381 381 Clyde R. Conner, Mississippi The Kappa Alpha Journal 35 3 Kappa Alpha Order 1919 Google books March 5, 2015 Sam Costen, quarterback for Vanderbilt who once coached The Citadel Bulldogs. He was also an attorney.Citadel Coaching Records https://web.archive.org/web/20150402094438/http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_iaa/southern/citadel/coaching_records.php 2015-04-02 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. Owsley Manier, fullback for Vanderbilt, unanimous selection, a "great plunging back,"https://books.google.com/books?id=e8s2AQAAMAAJ&q=edgerton&pg=PA328 Vanderbilt–A University of the New South Henry Jay Case 327 Outing 1914 64 Google books selected third-team All-America by Walter Camp. Manier scored five touchdowns against Alabama in a 78-0 victory and again ran for five touchdowns over Georgia Tech (37-6) in Atlanta.http://www.vucommodores.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/090805aaa.html Vandy All-Americans Bill Traughber September 8, 2005 March 5, 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20160304051652/http://www.vucommodores.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/090805aaa.html March 4, 2016 dead Manier was later an assistant coach and practicing physician. Joe Pritchard, tackle for Vanderbilt, unanimous selection, coached one year at LSU and was a Presbyterian dental missionary at Luebo in the Congo.https://books.google.com/books?id=SiLOAAAAMAAJ&q=vanderbilt++%22joe+pritchard%22+missionary%27&pg=PA112 Vanderbilt University Quarterly Vanderbilt University 15 Faculty-Senior Dinner, Maxwell House, April 16, 1915 1915 108–112 Google books 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 1906 Ends thumb|upright=.6|Lob Brown Bob Blake†, Vanderbilt (C, AWL, WP, MT, MCA, PW, DM) Lob Brown, Georgia Tech (C, AWL, MT, PW) Charlie Bagley, Washington & Lee (WP) Arthur Wilson, North Carolina A&M (WP [as t]) Frank Shipp, Sewanee (DM) Hope Sadler, Clemson (F) Tackles Joe Pritchard†, Vanderbilt (C, AWL, WP, MT, MCA, PW, DM) Lex Stone, Sewanee (C, MCA [as e], PW, DM) Edwin Noel, Vanderbilt (AWL, MT) Guards Walter K. Chorn, Vanderbilt (C, AWL, MT, MCA, PW, DM) Clyde Conner, Mississippi (C, MCA [as c], PW) Fatty McLain, Vanderbilt (AWL, MT) George Watkins, Sewanee (WP) Hoss Hodgson, Georgetown (WP) James C. Elmer, Mississippi (MCA) Puss Derrick, Clemson (DM, F) Centers thumb|upright=.5|Stein Stone Stein Stone, Vanderbilt (C, AWL, WP, MCA [as t], PW, DM) Grover Ketron, Georgia (MT, F) Quarterbacks Sam Costen, Vanderbilt (C, AWL, MT, MCA, PW, DM) Oscar Randolph, Virginia (WP) Halfbacks thumb|upright=.6|Owsley Manier Dan Blake†, Vanderbilt (C, AWL, MT, MCA, PW, DM) Honus Craig, Vanderbilt (C, MCA, PW, DM) Hammond Johnson, Virginia (WP, MT) Fritz Furtick, Clemson (AWL) Speedy Kerr, Georgetown (WP) Fullbacks Owsley Manier†, Vanderbilt (C, AWL, WP, MT, MCA, PW, DM) Hogan Yancey, Transylania (F) Key Bold = Consensus selection † = Unanimous selection C = selected by consensus of newspapers, as published in Fuzzy Woodruff's A History of Southern Football 1890-1928.Fuzzy Woodruff A History of Southern Football 1890-1928 283 AWL = selected by A. W. Lynn, sporting editor for the Atlanta Constitution.https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1922403// Newspapers.com March 4, 2015 Surprises The Rule During Past Season The Atlanta Constitution December 2, 1906 WP = selected by The Washington Post.https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1916794// Newspapers.com March 3, 2015 2 The Washington Post Local Players Named December 7, 1906 MT = selected by the Macon Telegraphhttp://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/HistArchive/?p_product=EANX&p_theme=ahnp&p_nbid=E57W4FHFMTQxMDkzNjg1OS45NzI2Mjg6MToxMzoxMzIuMTk4LjUwLjEz&p_action=doc&s_lastnonissuequeryname=20&d_viewref=search&p_queryname=20&p_docnum=4&p_docref=v2:11210D409F608820@EANX-115C84DA50274100@2417547-115C84DA751A2978@1-115C84DC36A82830@All%20Southern%20Football%20Teams Macon Telegraph All Southern Football Teams December 2, 1906 MCA = selected by former Tennessee player Nash Buckingham in the Memphis Commercial Appeal.Fort Worth Star-Telegram An All Southern Eleven Picked December 23, 1906https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/atlnewspapers/id:aga1907-4812 Some Past All-Southerns Atlanta Georgian December 9, 1907 12 March 5, 2015 Digital Library of Georgia PW = selected by Percy Whiting of Illustrated Outdoor News.https://books.google.com/books?id=Vws7AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA49 The Official National Collegiate Athletic Association Football Guide National Collegiate Athletic Association 1907 27, 49 Google books DM = selected by Dan McGugin head coach at Vanderbilt University, with information from Bradley Walker, southern official. F = selected by Jack Forsythe for a game in Savannah on Christmas.https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/atlnewspapers/id:aga1906-5842 Forsythe's "All Stars" Training In Charleston Atlanta Georgian Digital Library of Georgia December 22, 1906 20 See also 1906 College Football All-America Team References 30em Category:College Football All-Southern Teams Category:1906 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season