The 1907 College Football All-Southern Team consists of

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players selected to the

College Football All-Southern Team The College Football All-Southern Team was an all-star team of college football players from the Southern United States. The honor was given annually to the best players at their respective positions. It is analogous to the All-America Team and w ...

s selected by various organizations for the 1907 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season.

Fielding Yost Fielding Harris Yost (; April 30, 1871 – August 20, 1946) was an American football player, coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at: Ohio Wesleyan University, the University of Nebraska, the University ...

selected Bob Blake for his

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first team. Vanderbilt won the SIAA championship.

Consensus eleven

The eleven chosen by most selectors includes: * Bob Blake, end for Vanderbilt, was a

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and

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. He was selected for the ''Associated Press'' Southeast Area All-Time football team 1869-1919 era. *

Sam Costen Samuel Cutter Costen (May 18, 1882 – January 21, 1955) was an American football player and coach. Costen was a quarterback for Dan McGugin's Vanderbilt Commodores of Vanderbilt University. As a player, he weighed some 150 pounds. He was the thir ...

, quarterback for Vanderbilt. Costen was rated as Barrett's superior though Costen spent a good part of the year injured. *

Honus Craig John Livingston "Honus" Craig (November 30, 1881 – April 18, 1942) was an American college football player and coach. Early years John Livingston Craig was born on November 30, 1881, in Culleoka, Tennessee, to Thompson Sloan Craig and Ella Cli ...

, halfback for Vanderbilt,

Dan McGugin Daniel Earle McGugin (July 29, 1879 – January 23, 1936) was an American football player and coach, as well as a lawyer. He served as the head football coach at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee from 1904 to 1917 and again from ...

once called him the South's greatest athlete and Vanderbilt's greatest halfback. 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." In Craig's opinion, Bob Blake was the South's greatest player. * J. R. Davis, tackle for Georgia Tech; Davis was known as "Twenty percent" because he was considered twenty percent of the team's worth. *

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 ...

, tackle for Sewanee, later a coach. *

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" Coope ...

, halfback for Sewanee. 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." *

Kemp Lewis Howard Guy "Kemp" Lewis (February 21, 1883 – September 11, 1957), also known as Guy Lewis, was an American college football player and coach and engineer. He played end at Sewanee: The University of the South in 1906 and 1907 and was selected t ...

end for Sewanee *

Lawrence Markley Lawrence Markley was a college football player College football Markley played for the Sewanee Tigers of the Sewanee:The University of the South. He was captain of the 1908 team, and selected an All-Southern fullback both those years.e. g. ...

, fullback for Sewanee. *

Horace Sherrell Horace Everett Sherrell (January 23, 1886 – 1940) was an American college football player and coach. Vanderbilt University He was a prominent guard for Dan McGugin's Vanderbilt Commodores football team of Vanderbilt University. He also pla ...

, guard for Vanderbilt. Against

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in 1907; "On one of Craig's long runs Sherrell, who was only a sub last year, kept pace with the fast half back all the way, knocking down three tacklers en route to the goal." *

Lex Stone Andrew Alexis "Lex" Stone (May 19, 1885 – March 22, 1925) was an American football player, a coach of football and basketball, and a politician. Sewanee Stone was a prominent tackle for the Sewanee Tigers of Sewanee:The University of the Sou ...

, tackle for Sewanee, coached football and basketball at the

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. 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 1907

Ends

* Bob Blake†, Vanderbilt (C, DM, H, D, NB, NY) *

, Sewanee (C, DM, H, D, NB) *Henry Cabell Maddux Jr., Virginia (NY)

Tackles

†, Sewanee (C, DM, H, D, NB, NY) * J. R. Davis, Georgia Tech (C, DM, H) *

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, Clemson (H s g D) * R. T. Gaston, Clemson (H s g *Sadler, North Carolina A & M (NY)

Guards

, Sewanee (C, DM, D, NB s T *

, Vanderbilt (C, DM, NB) *

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, Tennessee (NB) * J. G. Davis, Auburn (D) *Harwood Beebe, North Carolina A & M (NY) *

Hoss Hodgson Emory Riddling "Hoss" Hodgson (March 5, 1886 – December 22, 1967) was an American football player and coach. He was a prominent guard and punter for the VPI Gobblers. Hodgson scored in the near upset of Princeton in 1909 Events ...

, VPI (NY)

Centers

* Stein Stone, Vanderbilt (C, DM, H, D, NB) *

William Gloth William Conrad Gloth (August 7, 1886 – December 3, 1944) was an American football player and coach. Gloth was a center on Virginia Cavaliers football teams of the University of Virginia, noted for his ability to beat the ends downfield on a pu ...

, Virginia (NY)

Quarterbacks

, Vanderbilt (C, DM, NY

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* Walter Barrett, Sewanee (H, D) * Sam Honaker, Virginia (NY)

Halfbacks

†, Vanderbilt (C, DM, H, D, NB, NY) *

, Sewanee (C, DM, H

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D, NB

* Frank Shipp, Sewanee (NB) *

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, Vanderbilt (H)

Fullbacks

, Sewanee (C, DM, D, NB s qb *L. E. Hughes, Auburn (D) *George Dutcher, Georgetown (NY)

Key

Bold = consensus choice by a majority of the selectors † = Unanimous selection C = selected by a consensus of newspapers, as published in

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's ''A History of Southern Football'' DM = All-SIAA eleven selected by

, coach at

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, for Spalding's Football Guide. H = selected by John Heisman, coach at the

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. D = selected by

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, coach at

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. NB = selected by former Tennessee player

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in the ''

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''. NY = selected by "a well-known New York authority on sports."

References

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