Bob Blake
The 1905 College Football All-Southern Team consists of
American football players selected to the
College Football All-Southern Teams selected by various organizations for the
1905 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season .
Vanderbilt won the
SIAA championship.
Virginia Tech , an independent school, lost only to
Navy and claims a southern championship for 1905.
[1]
Consensus eleven
Puss Derrick
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 selected for the Associated Press Southeast Area All-Time football team 1869-1919 era.
[2]
[3]
Dan Blake , halfback for Vanderbilt, brother of Bob. He later coached.
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]
Puss Derrick , guard and captain for Clemson.
John de Saulles sums up Derrick's play in
1905 ; he "is a veteran player who, by steady improvement has put himself in the first rank of linesmen. He was the mainstay of the Clemson season and no other Southern player could so satisfactorily fill this important position; hence, to balance the team and utilize the best of the material available, he is shifted from
center to guard."
Ed Hamilton , end for Vanderbilt, coached
Vanderbilt basketball in 1903–1904 and 1908–1909
Frank Jones , tackle for Auburn, captain-elect for both football and basketball.
Frank Kyle , quarterback for Vanderbilt, once head coach at
Ole Miss .
Owsley Manier , fullback for Vanderbilt, a "great plunging back."
[2]
Robert C. Patterson , center for Vanderbilt, known as "Emma," he later coached at Georgia Military Academy and as an assistant for his alma mater in 1908.
Stein Stone , guard for Vanderbilt, as a center selected for the Associated Press Southeast Area All-Time football team 1869-1919 era.
[3]
Hillsman Taylor , tackle for Vanderbilt, later a prominent attorney who was Speaker of the House of Representatives of Tennessee in 1909. He was the father of
Pulitzer Prize winning author
Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor .
All-Southerns of 1905
Ends
Ed Hamilton
Bob Blake †, Vanderbilt (C, WRT-1, H-1, BW-1, HY, AL, NE, AJ, JLD, WMR, NB, M-1)
Ed Hamilton , Vanderbilt (C, WRT-1, H-2, BW-1, HY, AL, NE, AJ, JLD, NB, M-1)
Sam Roberts, Georgia Tech (WRT-2, AJ)
Lewis Clark, Georgia Tech (H-1, BW-2 [as fb])
Wilson, North Carolina (RR)
Thomas Walker Lewis, VPI (RR)
Craig Day , Georgia Tech (H-2, BW-2, M-2)
Powell Lykes, Clemson (BW-2)
C. P. Huggins, Mississippi (M-2)
Jones Beene , Tennessee (H-3)
Sweat, Georgia Tech (H-3)
Tackles
Hillsman Taylor , Vanderbilt (C, WRT-1, H-1, BW-1, HY, NE, AJ, JLD, WMR, NB, M-1)
Frank Jones , Auburn (C, WRT-1, H-1 [as g], BW-1, HY, AL [as g], AJ, JLD, M-2)
Lex Stone , Sewanee (WRT-2, H-2, AJ, M-2 [as fb])
Joe Pritchard , Vanderbilt (H-2, BW-2, NE, NB, M-1)
Lob Brown , Georgia Tech (WRT-2 [as fb], H-1, BW-2)
Pete Willson, VPI (RR)
Bernard Hynes, VPI (RR)
Harvey Sartain, Alabama (H-3)
Wimberly, Cumberland (H-3)
Guards
Stein Stone
Puss Derrick , Clemson (C, WRT-2, H-3, BW-1, AL [as t], AJ, JLD, WMR [as t], M-2 [as t])
Stein Stone , Vanderbilt (C, WRT-1, H-2, BW-2, NE, JLD, WMR, NB, M-1)
T. S. Sims , Alabama (WRT-1, H-1, BW-1, HY, AL, AJ)
Innis Brown , Vanderbilt (WRT-2, H-3, BW-2, NE, WMR, NB, M-1)
Lucian Parrish , Texas (HY, M-2)
Oliver Gardner , North Carolina (RR)
Frank Stickling, VPI (RR)
Roscoe Word , Tennessee (H-2, M-2)
Centers
Robert C. Patterson , Vanderbilt (C, WRT-2, H-2, BW-1, NE, AJ, JLD, NB, M-1)
George Watkins , Sewanee (H-1, BW-2, HY, AL [as t], AJ, M-2)
Red Smith , Cumberland (WRT-1)
Washington Moody, Alabama (AL)
A. L. "Gus" Keasler, Clemson (WMR)
Joseph Stiles, VPI (RR)
Sims, Georgia Tech (H-3)
Quarterbacks
Frank Kyle , Vanderbilt (C, H-1, BW-1, AL, NE, AJ, JLD, NB, M-1)
John Scarbrough , Sewanee (WRT-1, H-3, BW-2, HY, AJ, WMR, M-2, RR)
Stewart, Cumberland (WRT-2, H-2)
Halfbacks
Owsley Manier
Honus Craig †, Vanderbilt (C, WRT-1, H-1, BW-1, HY, AL, NE, AJ, JLD, WMR, NB, M-1, RR)
Dan Blake , Vanderbilt (C, WRT-1, H-3 BW-2, NE, AJ, NB, M-1)
Fritz Furtick , Clemson (WRT-2, H-1, BW-1, AL [as fb], AJ, WMR [as e])
Auxford Burks , Alabama (WRT-2, H-2, BW-2, HY, AL, AJ, WMR, M-2)
Hammond Johnson ,
Virginia (JLD, RR)
W. Wilson , Georgia Tech (WRT-2 [as e], H-2)
Don Robinson, Texas (M-2)
Humphrey Foy , Auburn (H-3)
Fullbacks
Owsley Manier †, Vanderbilt (C, WRT-1, H-1, BW-1, HY, NE, AJ, JLD, WMR, NB, M-1)
LeRoy Abernethy , North Carolina (RR)
Sam Y. Parker , Tennessee (H-2)
E. L. Minton, Cumberland (H-3)
Key
Bold = Consensus selection
† = Unanimous selection
C = consensus of newspapers published in
Fuzzy Woodruff 's A History of Southern Football 1890-1928 .
WRT = selected by
W. Reynolds Tichenor of Auburn, published in the
Atlanta Journal .
[5] He had a first and second team.
H = selected
John Heisman . It had a second and third team.
[6]
BW = selected by
Bradley Walker , celebrated southern official.
[5] He had a first and second team.
HY = selected by coach H. C. Hyatt of the
University of the South .
[5]
AL = selected by coach
Jack Leavenworth of the
University of Alabama .
[5]
NE = selected by a "
Nashville Expert."
[5]
AJ = An attempt at a composite by the Journal , "players most favored by experts"
[5]
JLD = selected by
John Longer Desaulles .
[7]
WMR = selected by professor
W. M. Riggs of
Clemson University .
[8]
NB = selected by former Tennessee player
Nash Buckingham in the
Memphis Commercial Appeal .
[9] He picked
Vanderbilt 's whole eleven.
M = selected by a Memphis writer. His first team was Vanderbilt's eleven.
[10]
RR = selected by coach
R. R. Brown of
Washington and Lee University .
[11]
See also
References
^
"1905 V.P.I. Football team" . Retrieved February 11, 2015 .
^
a
b Henry Jay Case (1914).
"Vanderbilt–A University of the New South" . Outing . 64 : 327 – via
Google books .
^
a
b
"U-T Greats On All-Time Southeast Team" . Kingsport Post . July 31, 1969.
^
a
b
c
" "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 .
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a
b
c
d
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W. R. Tichenor (December 3, 1905).
"Football Experts Give Their Selections For An All-Southern Team" . The Atlanta Constitution . Retrieved March 5, 2015 – via
Newspapers.com .
^ John Heisman (December 10, 1905).
"Heisman's Selection of All-Southern Team" . Atlanta Constitution . p. 1.
^
Official Foot Ball Rules . 1906. p. 45.
^
"Prof Riggs' All-Southern Team" . The State . December 15, 1905.
^
"Some Past All-Southerns" . Atlanta Georgian . December 9, 1907. p. 12. Retrieved March 5, 2015 – via
Digital Library of Georgia .
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"Easy To Pick All-Southern Team" . The Courier-Journal . December 9, 1905. p. 9. Retrieved November 14, 2017 – via
Newspapers.com .
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"Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Football" . The Washington Post . February 18, 1906. p. 13. Retrieved March 3, 2015 – via
Newspapers.com .
Backfield Line † = Unanimous selection