1910 College Football All-Southern Team

American all-star college football team August 2023 thumb|upright=.7|Will Metzger. The 1910 College Football All-Southern Team consisted of American football players selected to the College Football All-Southern Teams by various organizations for the 1910 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. Vanderbilt post the best record in the SIAA, the only blemish on its record a scoreless tie with defending national champion Yale. Auburn also posted an undefeated conference record, but lost to Texas. Harvard Law School v. All-Southern thumb|left|upright=.7|Hamilton Fish. Hamilton Fish’s "Harvard Law School All Stars" played three games against different "All-Southern" elevens on December 30, 31, and January 2. The one on the 31st had been scheduled for a prior date but had been rained out. The first of these was a scoreless tie on muddy ground; the second a 5–0 Harvard victory, and the third another scoreless tie. Background On December 7 it was announced Fish's team was to play two games against southern teams. On December 28, they would be playing “the pick of Vanderbilt and Suwanee elevens” at Memphis and on the 31st, “the best men from the University of Louisiana and one or two other colleges” at New Orleans.https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1965602// The Indianapolis Star December 8, 1910 9 March 11, 2015 All Stars Invade Dixie Newspapers.com A December 26 wire service article reported that Fielding Yost “may don the moleskin again.”https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2366027// Yost May Don The Moleskins 5 December 26, 1910 The Daily Review Newspapers.com May 7, 2015 He was coaching a “western all-southern eleven” that was to play Harvard Law School in two days. Joining him from his Michigan squad were Germany Schulz and Andrew W. Smith.http://tombenjey.com/2010/04/30/1910-harvard-law-vs-vanderbilt-sewanee-michigan/ 1910 Harvard Law vs. Vanderbilt-Sewanee-Michigan Tom Benjey March 11, 2015 The Harvard All Stars made a stop in Cincinnati on their way south.https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1965745// The Cincinnati Enquirer Harvard All Stars 6 March 11, 2015 Newspapers.com December 28, 1910 By this time plans had changed and they were to play three games: first a game in Memphis on the 28th, then Michigan–Vanderbilt–Sewanee in Nashville on the 29th, and another in Baton Rouge on their southern tour. The Memphis game on account of rain was then postponed to the 31st.https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1965688/the_san_francisco_call/ The San Francisco Call December 30, 1910 Football Game Postponed Newspapers.com March 11, 2015 Vanderbilt–Sewanee–Michigan thumb|upright=1|Michigan's Germany Schulz next to Chigger Browne. A heavy rain also fell in Nashville on the night of the 28th,https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1965700// The Charlotte News December 29, 1910 March 11, 2015 Newspapers.com Harvard Team Plays Today At Nashville 1 and while the game had been expected to start at 2 o'clock on the 29th, it was apparently played on the 30th.https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3257731/the_tennessean/ The Tennessean December 30, 1910 7 September 20, 2015 Newspapers.com The Weather Man Says—Clear and Cold Yost coached the team and Vanderbilt coach Dan McGugin played in the game for his former coach. "In spite of a muddy field the game was fast from start to finish" on Old Dudley Field in front of 3,000 spectators.https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1966340// The Indianapolis Star All-Star Game Is Draw December 31, 1910 March 11, 2015 Newspapers.com Former Sewanee end Silas Williams played for Harvard while taking graduate courses.Sewanee Alumni News On a 110 yard field in those days, Fish had run for 100 yards when caught from behind by Browne 10 yards short of the goal. A blow from Michigan's Smith also broke Fish's nose.The Washington Herald https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1966878// January 2, 1911 6 Fish Is Handed A Broken Nose March 11, 2015 Newspapers.com Tom Benjey http://tombenjey.com/2010/05/04/southern-all-stars/ Southern All Stars March 11, 2015 McGugin "did much brilliant punting."https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1966188/the_gazette_times/ The Gazette Times December 31, 1910 10 No-Score Game March 11, 2015 The game ended as a scoreless tie. The lineup for the Southern team was: Bill Stewart, Vanderbilt (left end), Vaughn Blake, Vanderbilt (left end), Dan Blake, Vanderbilt (left end); Lex Stone, Sewanee (left tackle); Dan McGugin, Vanderbilt (left guard), Andy Powell, Vanderbilt (left guard); Germany Schulz, Michigan (center); Andrew Smith, Michigan (right guard); Frank Faulkinberry, Sewanee (right tackle), Louis Hasslock, Vanderbilt (right tackle); Hager, Vanderbilt (right end), Cecil Covington, Vanderbilt (right end); Chigger Browne, Sewanee (quarterback); Douglas (A. H. Douglas?) (left halfback), John Edgerton, Vanderbilt (left halfback); Bill Neely, Vanderbilt (right halfback); Henry H. Williams, Vanderbilt (fullback). The referee was Bradley Walker.https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1965910// The Cincinnati Enquirer The Game December 31, 1910 March 11, 2015 8 Newspapers.com Southern All Stars Originally the first game scheduled in Memphis finally happened on the 31st. It included many Ole Miss players. Earl Kinnebrew was a standout for the southern team. "The Southerners showed unexpected strength in individual defensive work. Kinnebrew, the giant tackle, who made an all Southern eleven this season and who intends to enter Harvard Law School after finishing his course at the University of Mississippi, played against Captain Fish and held his own, according to the verdict of an enthusiastic crowd who flocked to the side lines in spite of inclement weather."https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1960542/kinnebrew/ The Cincinnati Enquirer Harvard All-Stars January 1, 1911 10 March 11, 2015 Newspapers.com Harvard won 5 to 0, the only points a 25-yard pass from Stephen Galatti to Silas Williams. Baton Rouge Then on January 2 Fish's team played a group of LSU players in Baton Rouge.https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1966849// Atlanta Constitution Harvard Held By LSU Stars January 3, 1911 March 11, 2015 Newspapers.com 6 "The game was without question the finest exhibition of football ever given in the state." Harvard was hurt by the injuries and length of the trip, resting in New Orleans before the game.https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1966968// The Ogden Standard January 2, 1911 March 11, 2015 All-Star Harvard Team In Bad Shape 1 Newspapers.com The game ended 0 to 0. Doc Fenton was at quarterback. Composite eleven thumb|upright=.7|Jenks Gillem. The composite All-Southern eleven of four sporting writers and three coaches included: Chigger Browne, quarterback for Sewanee, rated by Grantland Rice as one of the great little men of the sport, weighing between roughly 110 and 125 at any given point in his career. Rice also claimed he was "harder to surround and tackle than a flea."https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19370618&id=raVQAAAAIBAJ&pg=5092,6341357 Size Doesn't Make Athlete The Milwaukee Journal June 18, 1937 Grantland Rice It was said he could run 100 meters in 10 seconds flat.Atlanta Constitution Sewanee Here On Saturday November 11, 1908 E. L. Caton, center for Auburn, once coach of Howard. John Heisman considered him one of the south's greatest centers.http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=95629 Howard College Has New Athletic Director The Huntsville Daily Times May 31, 1915 November 9, 2014 March 10, 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20141109123227/http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=95629 dead He managed the southern branch of the Pure Oil company in 1922, which marketed Tiolene, Pennsylvania base motor oil.Atlanta Constitution 2 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1922515// September 24, 1922 March 4, 2015 Newspapers.com Caton Sells Tiolene 'All-Southern' Style Ewing Y. Freeland, tackle for Vanderbilt, known as "Big 'un," coached at various institutions in Texas. Jenks Gillem, end for Sewanee. He was also a renowned punter and kicker, selected as the punter 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 He later coached. Earl Kinnebrew, guard for Mississippi, known as "Red." In the prior year's Egg Bowl in which Ole Miss defeated Mississippi State 9 to 5, Kinnebrew was called by the Jackson Clarion-Ledger "the particular star of his team."https://books.google.com/books?id=54L0Bv-uNVgC&pg=PA33 The Egg Bowl: Mississippi State Vs. Ole Miss William G. Barner 2010 33 Univ. Press of Mississippi 9781617030741 Aubrey Lanier, halfback and captain for Sewanee, known as "Laney". Vanderbilt coach Dan McGugin rated him as one of the greatest he ever saw.https://archive.org/stream/sewaneealumninew02univ#page/24/mode/2up/search/aubrey A Star Passes On Sewanee Alumni News 1936 2 4 4 Grantland Rice rated him amongst the best ever at punt returns. Will Metzger, guard for Vanderbilt, known as "Frog," unanimous selection, selected third-team All-American by Walter Camp, the third Southern player ever to receive such an honor.https://books.google.com/books?id=uZhOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA211 On the Gridiron and Diamond 211 The Kappa Alpha Journal 30 2 Order Kappa Alpha 1913 Metzger is sometimes called coach Dan McGugin's first great lineman.http://www.dothanfirst.com/media/lib/204/8/d/c/8dc53287-cc01-4aa0-a1e3-83cefe778bbf/14vanderbilt_guide.pdf 2014 Vanderbilt Commodores Football Media Guide 143 2015-03-10 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 dead He was a main cog in the 1910 team's 0–0 tie of defending national champion Yale and outscoring of opponents of 165 to 8,https://books.google.com/books?id=RS4VAAAAQBAJ&q=w+e+metzger+vanderbilt&pg=PA120 Where Football Is King: A History of the SEC Christopher J. Walsh Taylor Trade Publishing 2006 120 9781461734772 and selected for an Associated Press Southeast Area All-Time football team 1869-1919 era. Ray Morrison, quarterback for Vanderbilt, selected as the quarterback and kick returner for an Associated Press Southeast Area All-Time football team 1869-1919 era. He was later a coach at various institutions including SMU and Vanderbilt after McGugin. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1954 Bill Neely, end and captain for Vanderbilt, the older brother of Hall of Fame coach Jess Neely. Neely spoke of the scoreless tie with defending national champion Yale: "The score tells the story a good deal better than I can. All I want to say is that I never saw a football team fight any harder at every point that Vanderbilt fought today – line, ends, and backfield. We went in to give Yale the best we had and I think we about did it."https://books.google.com/books?id=-GEVBAAAQBAJ&q=%22bill+neely%22+&pg=PA44 Vanderbilt Football:Tales of Commodore Gridiron History Bill Traughber 44 2011 9781625842312 Pat Patterson, tackle for Georgia Tech, captain-elect. He also kicked. Patterson was an electrical engineer.http://www.library.gatech.edu/archives/finding-aids/view?docId=ead/VAC004-ead/VAC004-ead.xml H. Wayne Patterson Photographs Bradley Streit, fullback for Auburn, unanimous selection, led the school in touchdowns in 1910.https://books.google.com/books?id=o9qcRV21QkgC&q=%22bradley+streit%22+auburn&pg=PT45 SEC Football Trivia Ernie Couch 30 July 2001 9781418571788 All-Southerns of 1910 Ends thumb|upright=.6|Bill Neely. Jenks Gillem, Sewanee (C, GR, DJ-1, H, BC-1) Bill Neely, Vanderbilt (C, GR, DJ-2 [as qb], H, BC-2 [as hb]) Homer Cogdell, Auburn (DJ-1) Dean Hill, Georgia Tech (DJ-2, TA, BC-2) Cliff Hatcher, Georgia (TA, BC-2) Slick Stewart, Vanderbilt (BC-1) A. Brown, Vanderbilt (DJ-2) Tackles thumb|upright=.6|Pat Patterson. Ewing Y. Freeland, Vanderbilt (C, GR, DJ-1, H, BC-1) Pat Patterson, Georgia Tech (C, GR, DJ-2, H, BC-1) Frank Faulkinberry, Sewanee (DJ-1, TA, BC-2) Omer Franklin, Georgia (TA) E. W. Harmon, Auburn (DJ-2) O. G. Gresham, Alabama (BC-2) Guards Will Metzger†, Vanderbilt (C, GR, DJ-1, H, TA, BC-1) Earl Kinnebrew, Mississippi (C, GR, H) Burton Gray Allen, Auburn (DJ-1, BC-1) B. W. Sinclair, Georgia Tech (TA, BC-2) Gallor, Sewanee (DJ-2) B. J. Lamb, Auburn (DJ-2) J. H. Graham, Tennessee (BC-2) Centers E. L. Caton, Auburn (C, GR, DJ-1, H, TA, BC-1) Frank Juhan, Sewanee (DJ-2, BC-2) Quarterbacks thumb|upright=.6|Ray Morrison. Chigger Browne, Sewanee (C, GR, DJ-1, H, BC-2) Ray Morrison, Vanderbilt (College Football Hall of Fame) (C [as hb], GR [as hb], DJ-1 [as hb], TA, BC-1) Halfbacks Aubrey Lanier, Sewanee (C, DJ-1, H, TA, BC-1) Bob McWhorter, Georgia (College Football Hall of Fame) (GR, DJ-2, H, TA, BC-1) John E. Davis, Auburn (DJ-2) Kid Woodruff, Georgia (BC-2) Fullbacks Bradley "Bill" Streit†, Auburn (C, GR, DJ-1, H, TA, BC-1) Guy Ward, Sewanee (DJ-2) Henry H. Williams, Vanderbilt (BC-2) Key Bold = Composite selection † = Unanimous selection C = composite of four sporting writers and three coaches. http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/HistArchive/?p_product=EANX&p_theme=ahnp&p_nbid=Y4ET4ESEMTQxMDI3Njg5OC40Mjc3NTE6MToxMzoxMzIuMTk4LjUwLjEz&p_action=doc&s_lastnonissuequeryname=30&d_viewref=search&p_queryname=30&p_docnum=8&p_docref=v2:1223BCE5B718A166@EANX-122ACF8107A1BC40@2419014-1228336458E2E538@11-13204451DD2BE891@All%20S.%20I.%20A.%20A.%20Team.%20Consensus%20of%20Opinion%20Gives%20Places%20to%20Players.%20Vanderbilt%2C%20Sewanee All S. I. A. A. Team. December 8, 1910 Times-Picayune GR = selected jointly by Grantland Rice and John Heisman in the Atlanta Constitution.https://archive.org/stream/officialfootball19111nati#page/n61/mode/2up/search/%22all+southern%22 Spalding's Football Guide 1911 35, 65https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1958212// The Daily Tar Heel 4 Sportograms December 10, 1910 March 10, 2015 Newspapers.com DJ = selected by Dick Jemison, sporting editor for the Atlanta Constitution.https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1951052// Atlanta Constitution Dick Jemison 1 March 9, 2015 Newspapers.com November 27, 1910 Nine of the Football Stars Picked on Jemison's All Southern Eleven It had a first and second team. H = selected by John Heisman, coach at Georgia Institute of Technology, as published in Fuzzy Woodruff's A History of Southern Football 1890-1928 TA = selected by Tommie Akers, sporting editor for the Atlanta Journal.Athens Banner An All-Southern Football Squad November 25, 1910 1 Digital Library of Georgia March 5, 2015 http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/athnewspapers/id:adb1910-1383 BC = selected by Bill Cunningham, coach at the University of Georgia.http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/athnewspapers/id:abw1910-0378 2 March 5, 2015 Digital Library of Georgia An All-Southern Team From 1910 Football December 2, 1910 Weekly BannerJune 2026 InternetArchiveBot It had a first and second team. See also 1910 College Football All-America Team References 2 Category:1910 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season Category:College Football All-Southern Teams