1901 College Football All-Southern Team

The 1901 College Football All-Southern Team consists of American football players selected to the College Football All-Southern Teams selected by various organizations in 1901. Vanderbilt won the SIAA championship. Most said Virginia ranked best in the south.[1] Gallaudet, a school for deaf-mutes, also claimed a championship.

Hunter Carpenter.

Consensus selection

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Christie Benet.

Those players who made both Outing's team and received mention by the Washington Post included:

All-Southerns of 1901

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Ends

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Joe Ware

Tackles

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Guards

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  • Buck Harris†, Virginia (WP, O)
  • Branch Johnson, VMI (WP)
  • Alvin Lee Abbott, VPI (O)
  • Joe Lynch, Georgetown (WP-s)
  • Frank Kearns, Georgetown (WP-s)

Centers

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  • Percy Given†, Georgetown (WP, O)
  • H. Dorsey Waters, Virginia (WP-s)

Quarterbacks

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Robert Coleman.

Halfbacks

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Fullbacks

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  • Hunter Carpenter†, VPI (College Football Hall of Fame) (WP, O)
  • Albert Carr, North Carolina (WP-s)

Bold = consensus choice by a majority of the selectors

† = Unanimous selection

WP = posted by Oscar P. Schmidt in The Washington Post, selected by M. J. Thompson, graduate manager of athletics at Georgetown University and Richard Armstrong, formerly of Yale. It had a second team referred to as substitutes.[2][3]

O = selected by Caspar Whitney in Outing.[4]

References

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  1. ^ e. g. "Champions of the South regardless of conference affiliation".
  2. ^ ""All Southern" Eleven". The State. February 7, 1902.
  3. ^ Oscar P. Schmidt (1902). "Football in the Southern Colleges". The Official National Collegiate Athletic Association Football Guide: 129.
  4. ^ "Southern Intercollegiate Football". Outing. 37: 726. 1902.