1924 College Football All-Southern Team

The 1924 College Football All-Southern Team consists of American football players selected to the College Football All-Southern Teams selected by various organizations for the 1924 Southern Conference football season.

Hek Wakefield of Vanderbilt.

Alabama won the SoCon championship. Centre defeated Alabama and claims a Southern championship, even though Centre was never a member of the Southern Conference.

Composite eleven

Doug Wycoff of Georgia Tech.

The composite All-Southern eleven compiled by the Atlanta Journal included:

All-Southerns of 1924

Ends

Bob Rives

Tackles

  • Bob Rives, Vanderbilt (C, C2, NB-1, CH-1, FH, VU, BE)
  • Jim Taylor, Georgia (C, C2, NB-1, CH-2, FH, UGA, VU, BE)
  • Red Simmons, Mercer (NB-1, UGA)
  • Walter Skidmore, Centre (AS, CH-2)
  • Minos Gordy, Centre (CH-1)
  • Curtis Luckey, Georgia (NB-2)
  • Samuel Oscar Graham, VPI (NB-2)
  • Cy Williams, Florida (BE)
  • Noisy Grisham, Auburn (BE)

Guards

Goldy Goldstein of Florida.

Centers

  • Fats Lawrence, Auburn (C [as g], C2, AS [as g], CH-2 [as g], FH, VU, BE)
  • Shorty Propst, Alabama (C, AS [as g], NB-1, CH-1 [as g], FH [as g], UGA, VU [as g], BE)
  • Ed Kubale, Centre (AS, NB-1, CH-1, BE)

Quarterbacks

Edgar C. Jones of Florida.

Halfbacks

  • Pooley Hubert, Alabama (College Football Hall of Fame) (C, C2, CH-1, FH, BE)
  • Gil Reese, Vanderbilt (C, C2, AS, NB-1, CH-2, VU, BE)
  • Brother Brown, Tulane (NB-1, CH-2 [as fb], VU, BE)
  • Ark Newton, Florida (FH, BE)
  • Martin Kilpatrick, Georgia (NB-2, UGA)
  • David Rosenfeld, Alabama (NB-2)
  • Johnny Mack Brown, Alabama (CH-2)

Fullbacks

  • Doug Wycoff, Georgia Tech (C, C2, AS, NB-1, FH, UGA, VU)
  • Tom Ryan, Vanderbilt (VU [as hb], BE)
  • James D. Thomason, Georgia (NB-2)
  • Eddie Cameron, Washington & Lee (BE)

Key

Bold = Consensus selection

* = Consensus All-American

C = Composite selections from the Atlanta Journal.[8]

C2 = A second composite selection. Both were drawn by writers from Birmingham, Atlanta, Louisville, Nashville, Memphis, Chattanooga, New Orleans, Montgomery, Shreveport, Knoxville, Jacksonville, Columbus, and Columbia.[9]

AS = selected by Anniston coaches and The Anniston Star.[10]

NB = selected by Norman E. Brown.[11]

CH = selected by Happy Chandler, scout for the Centre Colonels football team.[12]

FH = selected by Fox Howe, coach of AMI.[10]

UGA = received most votes at their position by the players of the Georgia Bulldogs football team.[13]

VU = received votes at their position by the players of the Vanderbilt Commodores football team.[13]

BE = Billy Evans's "Southern Honor Roll"[14]

See also

References

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  2. "Allison "Pooley" Hubert".
  3. "Rites Saturday For Bob Rives". Kentucky New Era. March 2, 1956.
  4. "Well, You Don't Win Them All". Kentucky New Era. October 7, 1969.
  5. Norman E. Brown (December 8, 1924). "Brown Picks All-American Team for the Journal". Hamilton Evening Journal.
  6. Vanderbilt Football 2014 Fact Book Archived 2014-08-19 at the Wayback Machine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, pp. 125, 137, 142, 151 (2014). Retrieved August 17, 2014.
  7. W. A. Alexander (1926). "Forty-Five Yards for Georgia Tech" (PDF). Kansas City Star. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 13, 2015. Retrieved May 22, 2015.
  8. closed access "Atlanta Journals Picks S. I. C. All Star Team". Times-Picayune. December 8, 1924.
  9. "Two All-Dixie Teams Ignore Virginia Players". Washington Post. December 2, 1924.
  10. "All-Southern". The Anniston Star. December 7, 1924. p. 12. Retrieved November 12, 2017 via Newspapers.com. open access
  11. "Brown Picks An All-Southern Eleven". The Greenville News. December 5, 1924. p. 13. Retrieved November 11, 2017 via Newspapers.com. open access
  12. "All-Southern Eleven Picked By Chandler". The Courier-Journal. December 13, 1924. p. 9. Retrieved November 12, 2017 via Newspapers.com. open access
  13. Lawrence Perry (December 4, 1924). "Game's For The Sake". Harrisburg Telegraph. p. 20. Retrieved March 7, 2015 via Newspapers.com. open access
  14. "Billy Evans Honor Roll". Iowa City Press-Citizen. December 24, 1924. p. 11. Retrieved July 23, 2015 via Newspapers.com. open access
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