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1909 College Football All-Southern Team
The 1909 College Football All-Southern Team consists of American football players selected to the College Football All-Southern Teams selected by various organizations for the 1909 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. Sewanee won the SIAA championship. VPI, an independent school, also claims a Southern championship. Heisman's eleven The eleven selected by John Heisman included: * Eric Cheape, guard for Sewanee. * Harry Esslinger, tackle for Auburn. He was a pioneer coach at Huntsville High School. He served in that capacity from 1920 to 1932. * Doc Fenton, quarterback for LSU, inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1971. *Ewing Y. Freeland, end for Vanderbilt, known as "Big 'un," later coached at various institutions in Texas. * Malvern Griffin, tackle for Vanderbilt. *Aubrey Lanier, halfback for Sewanee. Grantland Rice called him "the noblest Tiger of them all." The ''Kappa Alpha Journal'' gives similar praise that year, calling Lanier ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Heisman
John William Heisman (October 23, 1869 – October 3, 1936) was a player and coach of American football, baseball, and basketball, as well as a sportswriter and actor. He served as the head football coach at Oberlin College, Buchtel College (now known as the University of Akron), Auburn University, Clemson University, Georgia Tech, the University of Pennsylvania, Washington & Jefferson College, and Rice University, compiling a career college football record of 186–70–18. Heisman was also the head basketball coach at Georgia Tech, tallying a mark of 9–14, and the head baseball coach at Buchtel, Clemson, and Georgia Tech, amassing a career college baseball record of 199–108–7. He served as the athletic director at Georgia Tech and Rice. While at Georgia Tech, he was also the president of the Atlanta Crackers baseball team. Sportswriter Fuzzy Woodruff dubbed Heisman the "pioneer of Southern football". He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aubrey Lanier
Aubrey Falls "Laney" Lanier (February 18, 1888 – April 25, 1936) was a college football player. Early years Aubrey was born on February 18, 1888, in the city of Butler in Lonoke County, Arkansas, to Isaac Hill Lanier and Mary "Ellen" Cooper. Sewanee He was a halfback for the Sewanee Tigers of Sewanee: The University of the South from 1907 to 1910, thrice selected All-Southern. Vanderbilt head coach Dan McGugin rated him as one of the greatest he ever saw. Grantland Rice rated him amongst the best ever at punt returns. He would catch punts whilst running at full speed. An all-time Sewanee team noted "Critics declare Aubrey Lanier the equal of Walter Eckersall as a safety man." 1907 McGugin said of Lanier in 1907 that he was "a star of purest ray, and came near winning the Vanderbilt game by his brilliant dashes after receiving punts." 1909 In 1909 when Sewanee won an SIAA championship Rice called him "the noblest Tiger of them all." The ''Kappa Alpha Journal'' give ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Homer Cogdell
Homer David Cogdell (April 5, 1888 – October 8, 1956) was a college football player and US Army captain during World War I. He was also an assistant administrator in the Farmers Home Administration. Auburn University Cogdell was a prominent fullback and end for the Auburn Tigers football team of Alabama Polytechnic Institute from 1908 to 1911. 1909 Grantland Rice selected him All-Southern in 1909. 1910-11 He was selected All-Southern again in 1910 Events January * January 13 – The first public radio broadcast takes place; live performances of the operas '' Cavalleria rusticana'' and ''Pagliacci'' are sent out over the airwaves, from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York C ... and 1911. References Auburn Tigers football players All-Southern college football players Players of American football from Bullock County, Alabama American football ends American football tackles American football fullbacks 1888 births 1956 deaths United States Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Faulkinberry
Frank Albert Faulkinberry (November 27, 1887 – May 13, 1933) was an American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach. Early years Frank was born on November 27, 1887 in Lincoln County, Tennessee to Christopher Columbus Faulkinberry and Sarah Ellen Caple. College athletics Faulkinberry was a tackle on the Sewanee Tigers, thrice selected All-Southern. His play was once called "a thing to marvel at." He is a tackle on Sewanee's all-time second team. He was nominated though not selected for an ''Associated Press'' All-Time Southeast 1869-1919 era team. As a player, he stood some 6'4", 198 pounds. At Sewanee he was a member of Phi Delta Theta. Faulkinberry is a member of both the Sewanee Athletics Hall of Fame and the Blue Raiders Hall of Fame, having coached for years the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders in both men and women's sports. He was also a Latin professor. Faulkinberry Drive on the Middle Tennessee State campus is named in his honor. Faulkinberry was inducte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lionel Moise
Lionel Moise (December 31, 1888 – March 8, 1949) was an American college football player, coach, and official as well as an attorney. Early years His early education was secured in the public schools of Dallas, following which he attended St. Matthew's Academy, an Episcopal preparatory school. He later supplemented this training by attending Baylor University School in Chattanooga, from which he received a scholarship to the Sewanee:The University of the South. Sewanee Moise was a prominent tackle for the Sewanee Tigers football team; "one of the great names of Sewanee football history." At Sewanee he was a member of the Kappa Alpha fraternity. 1909 In 1909 the team won a conference championship. Moise was also the kicker on the squad. He was selected All-Southern. Coaching career He assisted Charley Moran with defense at Texas A&M in 1914. After serving as an assistant coach at a high school in Dallas (Terrill School), Moise assisted Ray Morrison at Southern Methodist in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Neely (American Football)
William Daniel Neely Jr. (June 22, 1887 – May 16, 1965) was a college football player. Early years William, Jr. was born on June 22, 1887 in Smyrna, Tennessee to William Daniel Neely, Sr. and Mary Elizabeth Gooch. His father William died of sunstroke in 1900. His brother Jess Neely was a College Football Hall of Fame coach and captain of the undefeated 1922 Vanderbilt Commodores football team. Vanderbilt University He was a prominent end and halfback for Dan McGugin's Vanderbilt Commodores football teams. Bill also lettered for the Vanderbilt basketball team. Football 1910 He was captain of the undefeated and SIAA champion 1910 team, led as well by the likes of W. E. Metzger and Ray Morrison. That team managed a scoreless tie with defending national champion Yale. Neely recalled the event: "The score tells the story a good deal better than I can. All I want to say is that I never saw a football team fight any harder at every point that Vanderbilt fought today – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harvard Law School
Harvard Law School (Harvard Law or HLS) is the law school of Harvard University, a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest continuously operating law school in the United States. Each class in the three-year JD program has approximately 560 students, among the largest of the top 150 ranked law schools in the United States. The first-year class is broken into seven sections of approximately 80 students, who take most first-year classes together. Aside from the JD program, Harvard also awards both LLM and SJD degrees. Harvard's uniquely large class size and prestige have led the law school to graduate a great many distinguished alumni in the judiciary, government, and the business world. According to Harvard Law's 2020 ABA-required disclosures, 99% of 2019 graduates passed the bar exam. The school's graduates accounted for more than one-quarter of all Supreme Court clerks between 2000 and 2010, more than any other law schoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silas Williams
Silas McBee "Sike" Williams (June 9, 1888 – December 8, 1944) was an Americancollege football player and coach as well as a lawyer. Sewanee Williams was a prominent End (gridiron football), end for the Sewanee Tigers football, Sewanee Tigers of Sewanee:The University of the South, selected second-team for its All-Time football team, He stood 5'9" and weighed 150 pounds. 1909 Williams was selected College Football All-Southern Team, All-Southern and captain (sports), captain of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association, SIAA champion 1909 Sewanee Tigers football team, 1909 team. Harvard He also attended Harvard Law School, receiving his Bachelor of Law, LL. B. in 1913. Law school football There in a game of all-stars from Michigan Wolverines football, Michigan, Sewanee, and Vanderbilt Commodores football, Vanderbilt against Harvard Crimson football, Harvard, including Germany Schulz at center and Vanderbilt coach Dan McGugin at left guard, Williams played on Harvard's t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SMU Mustangs Football
The SMU Mustangs football program is a college football team representing Southern Methodist University (SMU) in University Park in Dallas County, Texas. The team competes in the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) as a member of the American Athletic Conference (The American). History Early history (1915–1917) In June 1915, Ray Morrison became SMU's football, baseball, basketball, and track coach, in addition to being a math instructor. The football team began as a member of the Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association, playing at Armstrong Field. The first game played by SMU's football team was a 13–2 victory over Hendrix College. After winning two games in a span of two seasons, Morrison left SMU for Fort Oglethorpe upon the United States’ entry into World War I. During this time, the football team was known as "the Parsons", due to the large number of theology students on the team. On October 17, 1917, the name "Mustangs" was selected as the school's mascot. Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Morrison
J. Ray Morrison (February 28, 1885 – November 19, 1982) was an American football and baseball player and a coach of football, basketball, and baseball. He served as the head football coach at Southern Methodist University (1915–1916, 1922–1934), Vanderbilt University (1918, 1935–1939), Temple University (1940–1948), and Austin College (1949–1952), compiling a career college football record of 155–130–33. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1954. As a player, he was one of the greatest quarterbacks in the history of Vanderbilt Commodores football. Morrison was selected as the quarterback and kick returner for an ''Associated Press'' Southeast Area All-Time football team 1869–1919 era. He piloted the team to two Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) titles in 1910 and 1911. The 1910 team fought defending national champion Yale to a scoreless tie. Yale coach Ted Coy called Morrison "the greatest player I have see ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Will Metzger
William Edgar "Frog" Metzger, Jr. (August 21, 1890 – December 2, 1951) was a college football player. Vanderbilt Metzger was a prominent guard for the Vanderbilt Commodores of Vanderbilt University from 1908 to 1911. Metzger was Dan McGugin's first great lineman. Metzger was selected for an ''Associated Press'' Southeast Area All-Time football team 1869-1919 era. Metzger was chosen for an all-time Vandy team in 1912, as well as an All-time Vandy team published in Vanderbilt's yearbook in 1934. At Vanderbilt he was a member of the Kappa Alpha fraternity. 1909 Metzger was injured in the loss to Ohio State in 1909, breaking his leg just above the knee. 1910 The 1910 team which tied defending national champion Yale and allowed just 8 points and scored 165 was led by Metzger, a unanimous All-Southern player and third-team ''All-American'' as chosen by Walter Camp. He was the third ever player from the South South is one of the cardinal directions or Points of the compa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1909 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets Football Team
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The 1909 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team represented the Georgia Institute of Technology during the 1909 college football season. Schedule References Georgia Tech Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football seasons Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets Football Program represents the Georgia Institute of Technology in the NCAA Division 1 Collegiate Competitors in the sport of American football. The Yellow Jackets college football team competes in the NCAA Div ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
