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 1903 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. Both John Heisman and Reynolds Tichenor 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 Nash Buckingham, former captain of the

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team.

Tichenor's eleven

Reynolds Tichenor'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 lawyer and Rhodes Scholar selected for the ''Associated Press'' Southeast Area All-Time football team 1869-1919 era. *

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, guard for Cumberland, unanimous selection. The next season, he coached the University of Florida at Lake City. *

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, guard for Clemson. * Jock Hanvey, fullback for Clemson, unanimous selection. He assisted teammate Pee Wee Forsythe coach the Florida State College team. *

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, 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

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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 College Football Hall of Fame in 1959. * Carl Sitton, 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 U.S. Commissioner of Education. 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) * Carl Sitton, Clemson (H-2, WRT, NB) *

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, Kentucky U. (NY, JLD-1) * Hope Sadler, Clemson (H-1, JLD-2) *

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, Vanderbilt (H-2) *William Fisher, North Carolina (JLD-2)

Tackles

, Sewanee (H-2, WRT, NB-s) * Branch Johnson, Virginia (NY, JLD-1) *

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, Virginia (NY, JLD-1) *

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(H-1) *

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, 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 *

†, Cumberland (H-1 s t NY, JLD-1, WRT s t NB

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, Clemson (JLD-2, WRT) * Oliver Gardner, North Carolina A & M (H-1) *T. B. Green, Tennessee (NB) *

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, 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) *

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, 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) *

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, Vanderbilt (H-2) *

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, 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) *

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, 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 John Heisman, coach at

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. WRT = selected by

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. NB = selected by former Tennessee player Nash Buckingham 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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