The 1925 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 1925 Southern Conference football season. In the annual

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, the

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champion

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defeated the heavily favored

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champion

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20–19 and became the first southern team ever to win a Rose Bowl. It is commonly referred to as "the game that changed the south." Alabama therefore was named a

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champion.

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The composite All-Southern eleven compiled by the ''

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'' (AP) included: *

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, halfback for Alabama, third-team AP All-America, inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1957. In the Rose Bowl, he earned

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honors after scoring two of his team's three touchdowns. Following the game, Brown was depicted on

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cereal boxes. He was later an actor, starring in several films. * Bill Buckler, guard for Alabama, second-team AP All-America. He played in the

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(NFL) with the

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for six years. * Peggy Flournoy, halfback for Tulane, second-team AP All-America, received the most selections. Flournoy led Tulane to an undefeated season; and he led the nation in scoring with 128 points. * Goldy Goldstein, tackle for Florida. Goldstein was one of the first

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s to ever play for the Gators. He played professionally for the

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of the first American Football League (AFL), and was later an attorney practicing in

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. *

Pooley Hubert Allison Thomas Stanislaus "Pooley" Hubert (April 6, 1901 – February 26, 1978) was an American football player and coach of football and basketball. Regarded as one of the South's greatest college football stars, he played quarterback for coach ...

, quarterback for Alabama, inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1964. While he was his team's best

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, he was also heralded as one of the game's best ever

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s. Coach

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called him "undoubtedly one of the greatest football players of all time." *

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, center for Sewanee. Kent was later a lumber salesman. * Irish Levy, guard for Tulane. Levy was selected for the ''

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s All-Time Tulane team. Like Goldstein, he was Jewish. * J. G. Lowe, end for Tennessee, third-team AP All-America. Lowe was the last to be elected captain of the football team in consecutive years until 2004. *

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, tackle for Vanderbilt. Rives was considered the greatest football player ever to come out of Hopkinsville High School in

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. He played professionally for the

and later was for several years a referee for high school football games throughout

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. *

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, end and captain for Georgia. Georgia defeated Auburn 34 to 0 in this year's version of the

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. *

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, fullback for Georgia Tech. Coach

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recalled "The work of Douglas Wycoff against Notre Dame two years in succession was brilliant in the extreme, as was his plunging against

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when we defeated them twice." Wycoff played professionally for various teams in both the AFL and NFL including with the

. He was inducted into the

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in 1978.

Composite overview

Peggy Flournoy received the most votes, 31 of the possible 32.

All-Southerns of 1925

Ends

* J. G. Lowe, Tennessee (C, S, NEB-1, DM-1, TQ, BE) *

, Georgia (C, NEB-1, BE) *

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(C, DM-1, BE) *

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, Maryland (S) *G. B. Ollinger, Auburn (NEB-2) *Joe Tilghman, Furman (NEB-2) *H. L. Stone, Mississippi A&M (DM-2) *Coach, Mississippi A&M (DM-2) *Gus Merkle, Georgia Tech (BE) * Delmas Gooch, Sewanee (BE) *Doc Wilson, Tulane (BE)

Tackles

, Vanderbilt (C, NEB-2, DM-1, TQ s end BE) * Goldy Goldstein, Florida (C, DM-2, BE) * Mul Holland, Virginia (S, NEB-1, DM-1, BE) *

Curtis Luckey Judge Curtis Luckey (July 31, 1904 – June 21, 1983) was an All-Southern college football tackle for the Georgia Bulldogs of the University of Georgia, known in his time as one of the best linemen in the South South is one of the cardin ...

, Georgia (NEB-1, DM-2, TQ, BE) *

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, Vanderbilt (S, BE) *

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, Florida (TQ) *Six Carpenter, Georgia Tech (NEB-2) *Hoss Talbot, Tulane (BE) *Robinson, North Carolina (BE)

Guards

* Bill Buckler, Alabama (C, S, DM-1, BE) * Irish Levy, Tulane (C, NEB-1, DM-2, TQ, BE) * Walt Godwin, Georgia Tech (S, NEB-2, DM-2, TQ, BE) *Roy Lloyd Dismukes, Alabama (NEB-1) *Roy Blackledge, Tulane (NEB-2) * Bruce Jones, Alabama (BE) *Clyde Norton, Florida (BE) * John Barnhill, Tennessee (BE)

Centers

, Sewanee (C, DM-1 s G BE) * Owen Poole, Georgia Tech (C, NEB-1, TQ, BE) *Walter Forbes, Georgia (S) *Herman McIver, North Carolina (DM-1, BE) *Harvey Wilson, Tulane (NEB-2) *Joseph Moran, VPI (BE)

Quarterbacks

, Alabama (College Football Hall of Fame) (C, S, NEB-1, DM-1, BE) * Lester Lautenschlaeger, Tulane (College Football Hall of Fame) (NEB-2, DM-2, BE) *A. C. Carter Diffey, Virginia (BE) *

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, William & Mary (BE)

Halfbacks

* Peggy Flournoy, Tulane (C, S, NEB-1, DM-2

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TQ, BE) *

, Alabama (College Football Hall of Fame) (C, S, DM-1, TQ, BE) * Edgar C. Jones, Florida (C, NEB-1, DM-2, BE s qb *

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, Vanderbilt (DM-1, TQ s qb BE) *

Adrian Maurer Adrian Harold "Sparky" Maurer (April 7, 1901 – May 4, 1943) was an American football player. Oglethorpe University He played college football as a running back for the Oglethorpe Stormy Petrels football team of Oglethorpe University. He wa ...

, Oglethorpe (NEB-2, BE) *Henry McGill Wilson, Washington & Lee (NEB-2) *

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, Alabama (DM-2, BE) *Palmer, Washington & Lee (BE)

Fullbacks

, Georgia Tech (C, S, NEB-1, DM-1, TQ, BE) *Bill Devin Jr., North Carolina (NEB-2) * Windy White, VMI (BE) *George Mahoney, Sewanee (BE)

Key

References

{{College Football All-Southern Teams 1925 Southern Conference football season College Football All-Southern Teams