1899 College Football All-Southern Team

The 1899 College Football All-Southern Team consists of American football players selected to the College Football All-Southern Teams selected by various organizations in 1899. The "Iron Men" of Sewanee won the SIAA championship. The Vanderbilt Hustler remarked on Suter's selection of 9 of his own players, "Only nine! He surely must have been thinking of a baseball team."^[1]

All-Southerns of 1899[]

Ends[]

Bart Sims, Sewanee (O, HMS-s)
Herman Koehler, North Carolina (O)
Walter Schreiner, Texas (HMS)
Walter Simmons, Vanderbilt (HMS)
John F. H. Barbee, Vanderbilt (HMS-s)

Tackles[]

W. Hamilton†, Georgia (O, HMS [as g])
John Loyd, Virginia (O)
Deacon Jones, Sewanee (HMS)
Richard Bolling, Sewanee (HMS)
Andrew Ritchie, Georgia (HMS-s)
James Hart, Texas (HMS-s)

Guards[]

Wild Bill Claiborne.

William Choice, VPI (O)
Wild Bill Claiborne, Sewanee (HMS)
Wallace Crutchfield, Vanderbilt (O)
William H. Newman, Tennessee (HMS-s)

Centers[]

Carlos A. Long, Georgetown (O)
William Poole, Sewanee (HMS)
Edward Overshiner, Texas (HMS-s)

Quarterbacks[]

Warbler Wilson†, Sewanee (O, HMS)
Semp Russ, Texas (HMS-s)
Ed Huguley, Auburn (HMS-s)

Halfbacks[]

Henry Seibels.

Ormond Simkins.

Arthur Feagin, Auburn (O, HMS-s)
Henry Seibels, Sewanee (College Football Hall of Fame) (HMS)
Harry Gerstle, Virginia (O)
Rex Kilpatrick, Sewanee (HMS)
Orvill Burke, Vanderbilt (HMS-s)
Lawrence Levert, Tulane (HMS-s)
Quintard Gray, Sewanee (HMS-s)
Franklin Bivings, Auburn (HMS-s)

Fullbacks[]

Ormond Simkins, Sewanee (HMS)
Robert M. Coleman, Virginia (O)
John H. McIntosh, Georgia (HMS-s)
Raymond Keller, Texas (HMS-s)
Charles L. Eshleman, Tulane (HMS-s)

Key[]

† = Unanimous selection

O = selected by W. A. Lambeth in Outing.^[2]^[3]

HMS = selected by H. M. Suter, head coach at Sewanee: The University of the South.^[4]^[5] It had substitutes, denoted by a small S.

References[]

^ "Which?". The Daily Tar Heel. February 21, 1900.
^ "All-Southern Football Team". Outing. Outing Publishing Company. 35: 533. 1900. Retrieved March 5, 2015 – via Google books.
^ "[1]". The Daily Tar Heel. January 31, 1900. p. 2. Retrieved April 10, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "An All-Southern College Eleven". Orange and Blue. March 28, 1900. Retrieved March 5, 2015 – via archive.org.
^ "South's Football Players Analyzed". Times-Picayune. February 11, 1900. p. 8. Retrieved March 8, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.

[1] "Which?". The Daily Tar Heel. February 21, 1900.

[2] "All-Southern Football Team". Outing. Outing Publishing Company. 35: 533. 1900. Retrieved March 5, 2015 – via Google books.

[3] "[1]". The Daily Tar Heel. January 31, 1900. p. 2. Retrieved April 10, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.

[4] "An All-Southern College Eleven". Orange and Blue. March 28, 1900. Retrieved March 5, 2015 – via archive.org.

[5] "South's Football Players Analyzed". Times-Picayune. February 11, 1900. p. 8. Retrieved March 8, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.

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v t 1899 College Football All-Southern Team composite selections
Backfield	QB Warbler Wilson† HB Arthur Feagin HB Henry Seibels FB Ormond Simkins
Line	E Bart Sims E Herman Koehler T W. Hamilton† T John Loyd G William Choice G Wild Bill Claiborne C Carlos A. Long
† = Unanimous selection

v t College Football All-Southern Teams
SIAA	1895 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1919 1920 1921
SoCon	1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932
Post-SEC	1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952