The 1903 College Football All-Southern Team consists of American football players selected to the College Football All-Southern Teams selected by various organizations for the 1903 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season.

Both John Heisman and Reynolds Tichenor selected teams. Fuzzy Woodruff relates: "The first selections that had any pretense of being backed by a judicial consideration were made by W. Reynolds Tichenor, old-time Auburn quarterback, who had kept in intimate contact with football through being a sought-after official. The next selections were made by John W. Heisman, who was as good a judge of football men as the country ever produced."[1][2]

So did Nash Buckingham, former captain of the Tennessee Volunteers football team.

Tichenor's eleven

Reynolds Tichenor's eleven as posted in Fuzzy Woodruff's A History of Southern Football includes:

All-Southerns of 1903

Ends

Tackles

Guards

Centers

Quarterbacks

Halfbacks

Fullbacks

Key

Bold = consensus choice by a majority of the selectors

† = Unanimous selection

H = selected by John Heisman, coach at Clemson University.[7]

WRT = selected by W. R. Tichenor.[8]

NB = selected by former Tennessee player Nash Buckingham in the Memphis Commercial Appeal.[9][10] It had substitutes, denoted with a small S.

NY = selected by a prominent New Yorker hired for the purpose.[11]

JLD = selected by John Longer Desaulles. It had a first and second team.[12][13]

References

  1. Ronnie Thomas (April 26, 1968). "One Way To Break The Monotony". Times Daily.
  2. "All-Southern Eleven of 1903 Powerful, and Fleet of Foot". Atlanta Constitution. November 29, 1903. p. 11. Retrieved March 5, 2015 via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  3. Lou Sahadi (October 2014). "24. 1903 Game With Cumberland". 100 Things Clemson Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die. ISBN 9781623689490.
  4. Wiley Lee Umphlett (1992). Creating the Big Game: John W. Heisman and the Invention of American Football. p. 67. ISBN 9780313284045.
  5. "Vetter Sitton Clemson Coach". The Anderson Daily-Intelligencer. January 21, 1915.
  6. Verner M. Jones (1904). "The Editor's Desk". The Kappa Alpha Journal. 21 (5): 639.
  7. "Sadler Is Made Captain of All-Southern Team". Atlanta Constitution. November 29, 1903. p. 11. Retrieved March 5, 2015 via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  8. Fuzzy Woodruff (1928). A History of Southern Football 1890-1928. p. 280.
  9. "Some Past All-Southerns". Atlanta Georgian. December 9, 1907. p. 12. Retrieved March 5, 2015 via Digital Library of Georgia. Open access icon
  10. "The Best in the South". The Cincinnati Enquirer. November 30, 1903. p. 3. Retrieved August 10, 2015 via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  11. "All-Southern Team". Baltimore American. May 30, 1904.
  12. "Johnny Desaulles Picks All-Southern Football Team". The State. August 27, 1904.
  13. Spalding's Football Guide
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