The 1906 College Football All-Southern Team consists of American football players selected to the College Football All-Southern Teams selected by various organizations for the 1906 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. For some, the SIAA champion 1906 Vanderbilt Commodores football team made up the entire team.[1] It would produce eight of the composite eleven. Owsley Manier was selected by Walter Camp third-team All-American. Vanderbilt won the SIAA championship.
Consensus eleven
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The All-Southern eleven representing the consensus of newspapers as published in Fuzzy Woodruff's A History of Southern Football 1890-1928 included:
- Bob Blake, end for Vanderbilt, unanimous selection, was a lawyer and Rhodes Scholar.[2] Blake made the drop kick to beat Carlisle, "the crowning feat of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association season."[3][4] He was selected for the Associated Press Southeast Area All-Time football team 1869-1919 era.[5]
- Dan Blake, halfback for Vanderbilt, unanimous selection, brother of Bob. He later coached.
- Lob Brown, end for Georgia Tech, captain-elect who helped Tech to its first defeat over Auburn.[6]
- Walter K. Chorn, guard for Vanderbilt, was a lawyer and one time insurance superintendent of Missouri.[7]
- Clyde R. Conner, guard for Mississippi, was a prominent lawyer of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and once United States Commissioner.[8]
- Sam Costen, quarterback for Vanderbilt who once coached The Citadel Bulldogs. He was also an attorney.[9]
- Honus Craig, halfback for Vanderbilt, Dan McGugin once called him the South's greatest athlete and Vanderbilt's greatest halfback.[4] One report says "When Craig was confronted with the above formidable title yesterday by a reporter whose business it is to know such things, he blushed like a girl and tried to show why Dan McGugin's judgment is not always to be trusted."[4] In Craig's opinion, Bob Blake was the South's greatest player.[4]
- Owsley Manier, fullback for Vanderbilt, unanimous selection, a "great plunging back,"[2] selected third-team All-America by Walter Camp. Manier scored five touchdowns against Alabama in a 78-0 victory and again ran for five touchdowns over Georgia Tech (37-6) in Atlanta.[10] Manier was later an assistant coach and practicing physician.
- Joe Pritchard, tackle for Vanderbilt, unanimous selection, coached one year at LSU and was a Presbyterian dental missionary at Luebo in the Congo.[11]
- Lex Stone, tackle for Sewanee, coached football and basketball at the University of Tennessee. He was the school's first basketball coach.
- Stein Stone, center for Vanderbilt, an all-time great at Vanderbilt who coached football one year at Clemson. He was an engineer.
All-Southerns of 1906
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- Bob Blake†, Vanderbilt (C, AWL, WP, MT, MCA, PW, DM)
- Lob Brown, Georgia Tech (C, AWL, MT, PW)
- Charlie Bagley, Washington & Lee (WP)
- Arthur Wilson, North Carolina A&M (WP [as t])
- Frank Shipp, Sewanee (DM)
- Hope Sadler, Clemson (F)
Tackles
[edit]- Joe Pritchard†, Vanderbilt (C, AWL, WP, MT, MCA, PW, DM)
- Lex Stone, Sewanee (C, MCA [as e], PW, DM)
- Edwin Noel, Vanderbilt (AWL, MT)
Guards
[edit]- Walter K. Chorn, Vanderbilt (C, AWL, MT, MCA, PW, DM)
- Clyde Conner, Mississippi (C, MCA [as c], PW)
- Fatty McLain, Vanderbilt (AWL, MT)
- George Watkins, Sewanee (WP)
- Hoss Hodgson, Georgetown (WP)
- James C. Elmer, Mississippi (MCA)
- Puss Derrick, Clemson (DM, F)
Centers
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- Stein Stone, Vanderbilt (C, AWL, WP, MCA [as t], PW, DM)
- Grover Ketron, Georgia (MT, F)
Quarterbacks
[edit]- Sam Costen, Vanderbilt (C, AWL, MT, MCA, PW, DM)
- Oscar Randolph, Virginia (WP)
Halfbacks
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- Dan Blake†, Vanderbilt (C, AWL, MT, MCA, PW, DM)
- Honus Craig, Vanderbilt (C, MCA, PW, DM)
- Hammond Johnson, Virginia (WP, MT)
- Fritz Furtick, Clemson (AWL)
- Speedy Kerr, Georgetown (WP)
Fullbacks
[edit]- Owsley Manier†, Vanderbilt (C, AWL, WP, MT, MCA, PW, DM)
- Hogan Yancey, Transylania (F)
Key
[edit]Bold = Consensus selection
† = Unanimous selection
C = selected by consensus of newspapers, as published in Fuzzy Woodruff's A History of Southern Football 1890-1928.[12]
AWL = selected by A. W. Lynn, sporting editor for the Atlanta Constitution.[13]
WP = selected by The Washington Post.[14]
MT = selected by the Macon Telegraph[15]
MCA = selected by former Tennessee player Nash Buckingham in the Memphis Commercial Appeal.[16][17]
PW = selected by Percy Whiting of Illustrated Outdoor News.[3]
DM = selected by Dan McGugin head coach at Vanderbilt University, with information from Bradley Walker, southern official.[3]
F = selected by Jack Forsythe for a game in Savannah on Christmas.[18]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Daniel Earle McGugin". Coach & Athlete. 28: 42. 1965 – via Google books.
- ^ a b Henry Jay Case (1914). "Vanderbilt–A University of the New South". Outing. 64: 327 – via Google books.
- ^ a b c National Collegiate Athletic Association (1907). The Official National Collegiate Athletic Association Football Guide. pp. 27, 49 – via Google books.
- ^ a b c d ""Honus" Craig, All-Southern Right Halfback---He Talks". Abilene Daily Reporter. April 25, 1909. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved March 8, 2015 – via University of North Texas.
- ^ "All-Time Football Team Lists Greats Of Past, Present". Gadsden Times. July 27, 1969 – via Google news.
- ^ Wiley Lee Umphlett (1992). Creating the Big Game: John W. Heisman and the Invention of American Football. p. 92.
- ^ "Chorn is Head of the Missouri State". The National Underwriter. Vol. 22. March 7, 1918. p. 9 – via Google books.
- ^ Kappa Alpha Order (1919). "Clyde R. Conner, Mississippi". The Kappa Alpha Journal. 35 (3): 381. Retrieved March 5, 2015 – via Google books.
- ^ Citadel Coaching Records Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Bill Traughber (September 8, 2005). "Vandy All-Americans". Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved March 5, 2015.
- ^ Vanderbilt University (1915). "Faculty-Senior Dinner, Maxwell House, April 16, 1915". Vanderbilt University Quarterly. 15: 108–112 – via Google books.
- ^ Fuzzy Woodruff. A History of Southern Football 1890-1928. p. 283.
- ^ "Surprises The Rule During Past Season". The Atlanta Constitution. December 2, 1906. Retrieved March 4, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Local Players Named". The Washington Post. December 7, 1906. p. 2. Retrieved March 3, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "All Southern Football Teams". Macon Telegraph. December 2, 1906.
- ^ "An All Southern Eleven Picked". Fort Worth Star-Telegram. December 23, 1906.
- ^ "Some Past All-Southerns". Atlanta Georgian. December 9, 1907. p. 12. Retrieved March 5, 2015 – via Digital Library of Georgia.
- ^ "Forsythe's "All Stars" Training In Charleston". Atlanta Georgian. December 22, 1906. p. 20 – via Digital Library of Georgia.
