The 1903 College Football All-Southern Team consists of

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players selected to the

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s selected by various organizations for the

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. Both

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and

Reynolds Tichenor Walker Reynolds "Tick" Tichenor (January 26, 1877 – November 16, 1935) was a college football player, coach, and official, as well as a sportswriter and attorney. Tichenor was a quarterback for John Heisman's Auburn Tigers of Auburn Unive ...

selected teams.

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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." So did

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, former captain of the

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team.

Tichenor's eleven

's eleven as posted in

's ''A History of Southern Football'' includes: *J. C. Anderson, halfback for Cumberland. * Bob Blake, end for Vanderbilt, unanimous selection, was a

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and

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selected for the ''Associated Press'' Southeast Area All-Time football team 1869-1919 era. * Marvin O. Bridges, guard for Cumberland, unanimous selection. The next season, he coached the University of Florida at Lake City. * Puss Derrick, guard for Clemson. * Jock Hanvey, fullback for Clemson, unanimous selection. He assisted teammate Pee Wee Forsythe coach the Florida State College team. * Joseph Lee Kirby-Smith, tackle for Sewanee, the son of

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. He later moved to

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as a practicing

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and gaining distinction throughout Florida and the south. * John Maxwell, quarterback for Clemson. He returned the kickoff to open the second half 100 yards for Clemson's first score in the game with Cumberland billed as the championship of the South, which ended in an 11–11 tie. * Henry D. Phillips, guard for Sewanee, unanimous selection. Sportswriter

called him "the greatest football player who ever sank cleated shoes into a chalk line south of the Mason-Dixon line." He was inducted into the

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in 1959. *

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, end for Clemson. One publication reads "Vetter Sitton and Hope Sadler were the finest

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s that Clemson ever had perhaps." He also played baseball. * Red Smith, center for Cumberland. Cumberland coach A. L. Phillips said Smith was the "only man he ever saw who has reduced football to a science." * John J. Tigert, halfback for Vanderbilt. Like Blake, he too was a Rhodes Scholar. He was later a prominent educator, including the president of the

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and the

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. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1970.

All-Southerns of 1903

Ends

* Bob Blake†, Vanderbilt (H-1, WRT, NB, NY, JLD-1) *

, Clemson (H-2, WRT, NB) * Lois Thompson, Kentucky U. (NY, JLD-1) * Hope Sadler, Clemson (H-1, JLD-2) * Dan Blake, Vanderbilt (H-2) *William Fisher, North Carolina (JLD-2)

Tackles

* Joseph Lee Kirby-Smith, Sewanee (H-2, WRT, NB-s) * Branch Johnson, Virginia (NY, JLD-1) * Walter Council, Virginia (NY, JLD-1) * Frank Foust,

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(H-1) * Ephraim Kirby-Smith, Sewanee (NB) * Harold Ketron, Georgia (H-2)

Guards

* Henry Phillips†, Sewanee (College Football Hall of Fame) (H-1, NY, JLD-1, WRT, NB s t * Marvin O. Bridges†,

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(H-1 s t NY, JLD-1, WRT s t NB s hb * Puss Derrick, Clemson (JLD-2, WRT) * Oliver Gardner, North Carolina A & M (H-1) *T. B. Green, Tennessee (NB) * W. W. Suddarth, Cumberland (NB) *

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, Vanderbilt (H-2) *Bully Jones, North Carolina (H-2) *

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, Virginia (JLD-2, NB-s) *Green, Mississippi A&M (NB-s)

Centers

* Red Smith, Cumberland (H-1, WRT, NB) * Clyde Conner, Virginia (NY, JLD-1) * Roach Stewart, North Carolina (H-2) *

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, Georgetown (JLD-2)

Quarterbacks

* John Maxwell, Clemson (H-1, JLD-2, WRT, NB) * John Pollard, Virginia (NY, JLD-1) * Frank Kyle, Vanderbilt (H-2) * John Scarbrough, Sewanee (NB-s)

Halfbacks

* John J. Tigert, Vanderbilt (College Football Hall of Fame) (H-1, WRT, NB-s) *J. C. "Dog" Anderson, Cumberland (H-1, WRT) * Joe Reilly, Georgetown (NY, JLD-1) *

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, VPI (College Football Hall of Fame) (NY, JLD-1) * Rupert Colmore, Sewanee (H-2, NB) *

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, Clemson (H-2) *Wister Heald, Virginia (JLD-2) * Hub Hart, Georgetown (JLD-2)

Fullbacks

* Jock Hanvey†, Clemson (H-1, NY, JLD-1, WRT, NB) *E. L. Minton, Cumberland (H-2) *

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, Kentucky U. (JLD-2) * Sam Y. Parker, Tennessee (NB-2)

Key

Bold = consensus choice by a majority of the selectors † = Unanimous selection H = selected by

, coach at

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. WRT = selected by W. R. Tichenor. NB = selected by former Tennessee player

in the ''

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''. It had substitutes, denoted with a small S. NY = selected by a prominent New Yorker hired for the purpose. JLD = selected by John Longer Desaulles. It had a first and second team.Spalding's Football Guide
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References

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