The 1899 College Football All-Southern Team consists of

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players selected to the

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s selected by various organizations in 1899. The "Iron Men" of

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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."

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 s g *

John Loyd John Edward Loyd (May 5, 1875 – March 4, 1943) was an American college football player and physician. College football Loyd played for Richmond College from 1892 to 1895 and for the Virginia Cavaliers from 1898 to 1900. He was captain ...

, Virginia (O) *Deacon Jones, Sewanee (HMS) *Richard Bolling, Sewanee (HMS) *Andrew Ritchie, Georgia (HMS-s) *James Hart, Texas (HMS-s)

Guards

William Choice William Choice Jr. (9 June 1880 – 6 February 1942) was a college football player. He served in the Spanish–American War. College football VPI In 1899 he was a prominent guard for Virginia Polytechnic Institute Virginia Tech (formally ...

, VPI (O) *

Wild Bill Claiborne William Stirling "Wild Bill" Claiborne (December 11, 1879 – January 7, 1933) was a college football player and Episcopal archdeacon of Sewanee and East Tennessee. Before he was archdeacon, he was rector of Otey Memorial parish. College fo ...

, Sewanee (HMS) *

Wallace Crutchfield Wallace M. Crutchfield was a college football player and reverend. Vanderbilt University Crutchfield was a prominent guard for the Vanderbilt Commodores football team of Vanderbilt University from 1896 to 1901, at that time "the biggest man that ...

, Vanderbilt (O) *William H. Newman, Tennessee (HMS-s)

Centers

* Carlos A. Long, Georgetown (O) *

William Poole William Poole (July 24, 1821 – March 8, 1855), also known as Bill the Butcher, was the leader of the Washington Street Gang, which later became known as the Bowery Boys gang. He was a local leader of the Know Nothing political movement ...

, Sewanee (HMS) *Edward Overshiner, Texas (HMS-s)

Quarterbacks

Warbler Wilson William Blackburn "Warbler" Wilson (November 28, 1878 – December 8, 1958) was a college football player and city recorder. College football Wilson was an All-Southern quarterback. South Carolina Wilson came from Rock Hill, South Carolina, ...

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

Halfbacks

Arthur Feagin Arthur Henry Feagin (March 7, 1878 – March 25, 1932) was a college football player. Auburn University Feagin was a prominent halfback for John Heisman's Auburn Tigers football teams of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute. At Auburn he was a ...

, Auburn (O, HMS-s) *

Henry Seibels Henry Goldthwaite "Ditty" Seibels (August 22, 1876 – September 29, 1967) was a prominent American college football and baseball player and golfer for the Sewanee Tigers of Sewanee: The University of the South, a small Episcopal school in the ...

, Sewanee (College Football Hall of Fame) (HMS) *

Harry Gerstle Harry Lee "Hal" Gerstle (July 12, 1880 – December 9, 1929) was an American college football player and lumber dealer. He attended the Bingham Military School. Gerstle played for the Virginia Cavaliers football team. He scored the only poin ...

, Virginia (O) *

Rex Kilpatrick Ringland Fisher "Rex" Kilpatrick (December 26, 1881 – November, 1955) was a college football player; later a builder and investment banker in the New York area. He was the younger brother of John Kilpatrick. He was one of the principal owner ...

, 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 Ormond Simkins (May 16, 1879 – December 4, 1921) was an American football and baseball player for the Sewanee Tigers of Sewanee: The University of the South. He was the son of William Stewart Simkins, who may have fired the first shot of t ...

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

References

{{College_Football_All-Southern_Teams College Football All-Southern Teams All-Southern team