1915 College Football All-Southern Team

The 1915 College Football All-Southern Team consists of American football players selected to the College Football All-Southern Teams selected by various organizations in 1915. Josh Cody and Baby Taylor were selected third-team All-Americans by Walter Camp, and Bully Van de Graaff was selected for his second-team. Van de Graaff was Alabama's first ever All-American. Buck Mayer of the 81 Virginia Cavaliers was the south's first consensus All-American, selected first-team All-American by Frank G. Menke and Parke H. Davis. The "point-a-minute" Vanderbilt Commodores won the SIAA.

Composite eleven

The composite All-Southern team selected by ten sports writers and coaches included:

  • Josh Cody, tackle for Vanderbilt, inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1970, only three-time All-American in Vanderbilt football history. Third-team Camp All-American. He was selected for the Associated Press Southeast Area All-Time football team 1869-1919 era.[1] Later a prominent football coach at many institutions.
  • Rabbit Curry, quarterback for Vanderbilt, unanimous selection. During the First World War, he was killed in aerial combat over France. He was a beloved player of Coach McGugin, described by one writer as "the player who has most appealed to the imagination, admiration, and affection of the entire university community through the years."[2]
  • Russ Cohen, end for Vanderbilt, later an assistant under Wallace Wade at Alabama and head coach at LSU and Cincinnati.
  • Wooch Fielder, halfback for Georgia Tech, later an influential veteran of the Second World War.
  • John G. Henderson, center for Georgia, the head of a group of three men, one behind the other with his hands upon the shoulders of the one in front, to counter Georgia Tech's jump shift offense utilized by John Heisman.[3] The game ended 00. He also played baseball and was later Georgia baseball coach.
  • Bob Lang, guard for Georgia Tech, the first guard selected for the Heisman era All-Era Tech football team.
  • Walter Neville, fullback for Georgia, made All-Southern in his first year on the varsity.
  • David Paddock, quarterback for Georgia, the only player in school history to have a petition circulated by the student body requesting that he play for the Bulldogs.
  • Baby Taylor, guard for Auburn, unanimous selection. Weighing just under 200 pounds, Taylor would be a small player today, but he was then considered quite large, "worth three ordinary men."[4] Miss Virginia Gilmer, an Auburn fan of some 13 years of age once told Taylor that “if she were a boy and as big as he and had any sense at all she would be an all-southern tackle.”[5] Third-team Camp All-American
  • Charlie Thompson, end for Georgia, captain-elect but ruled ineligible for next year.
  • Bully Van de Graaff, tackle for Alabama, unanimous selection. He was selected for the Associated Press Southeast Area All-Time football team 1869-1919 era.[1] Alabama's first All-American, and brother of the inventor of the Van de Graaff generator which produces high voltages. Second-team Camp All-American.

Composite overview

Bully Van de Graaff, Baby Taylor, and Rabbit Curry were unanimous selections.

Name Position School First-team selections
Bully Van de GraaffTackleAlabama10
Baby TaylorGuardAuburn10
Rabbit CurryQuarterbackVanderbilt10
Josh CodyTackleVanderbilt8
David PaddockQuarterbackGeorgia7
John HendersonCenterGeorgia6
Charlie ThompsonEndGeorgia4
Russ CohenEndVanderbilt4
Neil EdmondEndSewanee3
Jim SenterEndGeorgia Tech3
Bob LangGuardGeorgia Tech3
Bob Taylor DobbinsGuardSewanee3
Wooch FielderHalfbackGeorgia Tech3
Froggie MorrisonHalfbackGeorgia Tech3
Walter NevilleFullbackGeorgia3
Yank TandyCenterNorth Carolina2
Everett StrupperHalfbackGeorgia Tech2
Paul SquibbHalfbackChattanooga2
Roy HomewoodEndNorth Carolina1
Phillip CooperTackleLSU1
Ted ShultzTackleWashington & Lee1
Tom ThrashTackleGeorgia1
Pryor WilliamsGuardVanderbilt1
C. M. HamiltonGuardVanderbilt1
George SteedGuardAuburn1
Carey RobinsonCenterAuburn1
R. McArthurCenterMississippi A & M1
Johnny BarrettHalfbackWashington & Lee1
Buck MayerHalfbackVirginia1
Homer PrendergastHalfbackAuburn1
Charles C. SchraderFullbackKentucky1
Hal HunterFullbackTransylvania1
Pete MailhesFullbackTulane1
Bedie BidezFullbackAuburn1

All-Southerns of 1915

Ends

Tackles

Guards

Centers

Quarterbacks

Halfbacks

Fullbacks

Walter Neville

Key

Bold = Composite selection

* = Consensus All-American

= Unanimous selection

C = received votes for a composite All-Southern eleven selected by ten sports writers and coaches, including those from Memphis, Nashville, Atlanta, Birmingham, Chattanooga, and New Orleans.[6] Votes for multiple positions are combined.

TC = Another composite, using eleven sportswriters, published by the Tennessean.[7]

H = selected by John Heisman, published in Fuzzy Woodruff's A History of Southern Football.

DJ = selected by Dick Jemison in the Atlanta Constitution.[8]

NT = selected by the Nashville Tennessean.[9]

SP = selected by the Sewanee student newspaper, the Sewanee Purple.[10]

See also

References

  1. "All-Time Football Team Lists Greats Of Past, Present". Gadsden Times. July 27, 1969.
  2. Edwin Mims (1946). History of Vanderbilt University. p. 285.
  3. Alabama vs. Tulane (PDF). November 6, 1937. pp. 5, 11.
  4. "A Lip-Reading Football Star". The Volta Review. Volta Bureau: 102–105. 1925.
  5. Jeremy Henderson (May 21, 2014). "To the eternal glory of Miss Virginia Gilmer, maybe the biggest Auburn fan ever".
  6. Dick Jemison (November 30, 1915). "Composite All-Southern Of Ten Of The Dopesters". Atlanta Constitution. p. 10. Retrieved March 5, 2015 via Newspapers.com. open access
  7. Blinkey Horn. "Composite All-Southern Shows Wide Range of Opinion and Place". The Tennessean. p. 10. Retrieved September 21, 2015 via Newspapers.com. open access
  8. Dick Jemison (November 21, 1915). "All-Southern Pick". Atlanta Constitution. Retrieved March 4, 2015 via Newspapers.com. open access
  9. Blinkey Horn (November 28, 1915). "Three Commodores Are Given Places On All-Southern". The Tennessean. p. 42. Retrieved September 21, 2015 via Newspapers.com. open access
  10. "The Purple's Pick For An All-Southern Team". The Sewanee Purple. December 2, 1915.
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