The 1912 College Football All-Southern Team consists of American football players selected to the College Football All-Southern Teams selected by various organizations for the 1912 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. Lew Hardage was selected for Walter Camp's third-team All-American. Vanderbilt won the SIAA championship. Georgetown won the SAIAA championship.
Innis Brown, a referee throughout the south, and captain of Vanderbilt's 1905 championship team, was hired to select the team of the Atlanta Constitution. The Constitution's editor Dick Jemison also selected a team. Former Georgia player and captain and then assistant Harold Ketron selected a team. Georgia Tech head coach John Heisman as usual picked one also. Former Mississippi head coach Nathan Stauffer selected an All-Southern team for Collier's Weekly.
The composite All-Southern eleven formed by "consolidated pick" of ten sporting writers culled by the Atlanta Constitution editor Dick Jemison included:
Lew Hardage, Bob McWhorter, and Hugh Morgan were unanimous All-Southern selections.
Name | Position | School | First-team selections |
---|---|---|---|
Lew Hardage | Halfback | Vanderbilt | 10 |
Bob McWhorter | Halfback | Georgia | 10 |
Hugh Morgan | Center | Vanderbilt | 10 |
Enoch Brown | End | Vanderbilt | 8 |
Tom Brown | Tackle | Vanderbilt | 8 |
Ammie Sikes | Fullback | Vanderbilt | 8 |
B. J. Lamb | Tackle | Auburn | 8 |
Jenks Gillem | End | Sewanee | 7 |
Hargrove Van de Graaff | End | Alabama | 6 |
Rube Barker | Tackle | Ole Miss | 6 |
David Peacock | Guard | Georgia | 6 |
Lee Tolley | Quarterback | Sewanee | 4 |
Big Thigpen | Guard | Auburn | 2 |
Jim Stoney | Guard | Sewanee | 2 |
F. C. Burns | Guard | Auburn | 2 |
John Henderson | Guard | Georgia | 2 |
Guts Meadows | Guard | Auburn | 2 |
Kirk Newell | Halfback | Auburn | 2 |
Paul A. Reule | Fullback | Mississippi A & M | 2 |
R. N. MacCallum | Guard | Sewanee | 1 |
Herman Daves | Guard | Vanderbilt | 1 |
Rip Major | Quarterback | Auburn | 1 |
Alf McDonald | Quarterback | Georgia Tech | 1 |
Ralph Fletcher | Quarterback | Ole Miss | 1 |
Bold = Composite selection
† = Unanimous selection
C = received votes for a composite All-Southern eleven from one of ten sports writers compiled by Dick Jemison of the Atlanta Constitution, called the "consolidated pick." The ten came from Innis Brown, John Heisman, Jemison, Julian Murphey, Harold Ketron, The Birmingham Age-Herald, Atticus Mullin, The Montgomery Advertiser, the Memphis Commercial-Appeal and the Nashville Democrat. Votes for multiple positions are combined. Most chose Rube Barker as a guard in this composite. [11]
IB = selected by Innis Brown, captain of 1905 Vanderbilt football team and referee throughout the South. [4]
NS = selected by Nathan P. Stauffer of Collier's Weekly. [12] [13] [14] It had a first and second team, denoted by the numbers 1 or 2.
SS = selected by Sam Sarokin, sporting editor for the New Orleans Item. [12]
H = selected by John Heisman, coach at the Georgia Institute of Technology, as published in Fuzzy Woodruff's A History of Southern Football 1890-1928.
HK = selected by Harold Ketron. [15]
BAH = selected by the Birmingham Age-Herald. [16]
NT = posted in the Nashville Tennessean. [17]
AT = an All-Southern team which played against an All-Texas squad. [18]
The 1912 College Football All-Southern Team consists of American football players selected to the College Football All-Southern Teams selected by various organizations for the 1912 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. Lew Hardage was selected for Walter Camp's third-team All-American. Vanderbilt won the SIAA championship. Georgetown won the SAIAA championship.
Innis Brown, a referee throughout the south, and captain of Vanderbilt's 1905 championship team, was hired to select the team of the Atlanta Constitution. The Constitution's editor Dick Jemison also selected a team. Former Georgia player and captain and then assistant Harold Ketron selected a team. Georgia Tech head coach John Heisman as usual picked one also. Former Mississippi head coach Nathan Stauffer selected an All-Southern team for Collier's Weekly.
The composite All-Southern eleven formed by "consolidated pick" of ten sporting writers culled by the Atlanta Constitution editor Dick Jemison included:
Lew Hardage, Bob McWhorter, and Hugh Morgan were unanimous All-Southern selections.
Name | Position | School | First-team selections |
---|---|---|---|
Lew Hardage | Halfback | Vanderbilt | 10 |
Bob McWhorter | Halfback | Georgia | 10 |
Hugh Morgan | Center | Vanderbilt | 10 |
Enoch Brown | End | Vanderbilt | 8 |
Tom Brown | Tackle | Vanderbilt | 8 |
Ammie Sikes | Fullback | Vanderbilt | 8 |
B. J. Lamb | Tackle | Auburn | 8 |
Jenks Gillem | End | Sewanee | 7 |
Hargrove Van de Graaff | End | Alabama | 6 |
Rube Barker | Tackle | Ole Miss | 6 |
David Peacock | Guard | Georgia | 6 |
Lee Tolley | Quarterback | Sewanee | 4 |
Big Thigpen | Guard | Auburn | 2 |
Jim Stoney | Guard | Sewanee | 2 |
F. C. Burns | Guard | Auburn | 2 |
John Henderson | Guard | Georgia | 2 |
Guts Meadows | Guard | Auburn | 2 |
Kirk Newell | Halfback | Auburn | 2 |
Paul A. Reule | Fullback | Mississippi A & M | 2 |
R. N. MacCallum | Guard | Sewanee | 1 |
Herman Daves | Guard | Vanderbilt | 1 |
Rip Major | Quarterback | Auburn | 1 |
Alf McDonald | Quarterback | Georgia Tech | 1 |
Ralph Fletcher | Quarterback | Ole Miss | 1 |
Bold = Composite selection
† = Unanimous selection
C = received votes for a composite All-Southern eleven from one of ten sports writers compiled by Dick Jemison of the Atlanta Constitution, called the "consolidated pick." The ten came from Innis Brown, John Heisman, Jemison, Julian Murphey, Harold Ketron, The Birmingham Age-Herald, Atticus Mullin, The Montgomery Advertiser, the Memphis Commercial-Appeal and the Nashville Democrat. Votes for multiple positions are combined. Most chose Rube Barker as a guard in this composite. [11]
IB = selected by Innis Brown, captain of 1905 Vanderbilt football team and referee throughout the South. [4]
NS = selected by Nathan P. Stauffer of Collier's Weekly. [12] [13] [14] It had a first and second team, denoted by the numbers 1 or 2.
SS = selected by Sam Sarokin, sporting editor for the New Orleans Item. [12]
H = selected by John Heisman, coach at the Georgia Institute of Technology, as published in Fuzzy Woodruff's A History of Southern Football 1890-1928.
HK = selected by Harold Ketron. [15]
BAH = selected by the Birmingham Age-Herald. [16]
NT = posted in the Nashville Tennessean. [17]
AT = an All-Southern team which played against an All-Texas squad. [18]