1903 College Football All-Southern Team

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Reynolds Tichenor's eleven as posted in Fuzzy Woodruff'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.
• Marvin O. Bridges, guard for Cumberland, unanimous selection. The next season, he coached the University of Florida at Lake City.
• Puss Derrick, guard for Clemson.
• Jock Hanvey, fullback for Clemson, unanimous selection. He assisted teammate Pee Wee Forsythe coach the Florida State College team.
• Joseph Lee Kirby-Smith, tackle for Sewanee, the son of Edmund Kirby-Smith. He later moved to Jacksonville, Florida as a practicing dermatologist and gaining distinction throughout Florida and the south.
• John Maxwell, quarterback for Clemson. He returned the kickoff 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.{{cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mhJwBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT136|chapter=24. 1903 Game With Cumberland|author=Lou Sahadi|title=100 Things Clemson Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die|date=October 2014|isbn=9781623689490}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QWv3BlnItIEC&pg=PA67|title=Creating the Big Game: John W. Heisman and the Invention of American Football|author=Wiley Lee Umphlett|year=1992|page=67|isbn=9780313284045}}
• Henry D. Phillips, guard for Sewanee, unanimous selection. Sportswriter Fuzzy Woodruff 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 ends that Clemson ever had perhaps."{{cite news|newspaper=The Anderson Daily-Intelligencer|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn93067669/1915-01-21/ed-1/seq-2/print/image_681x648_from_3411%2C3430_to_4381%2C4354/|title=Vetter Sitton Clemson Coach|date=January 21, 1915}} 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."{{cite journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2ZdOAAAAYAAJ&q=%22m+o+bridges%22+football&pg=PA639|journal=The Kappa Alpha Journal|title=The Editor's Desk|author=Verner M. Jones|year=1904|volume=21|number=5|page=639}}
• 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 University of Florida and the U.S. Commissioner of Education. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1970.

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• Bob Blake†, Vanderbilt (H-1, WRT, NB, NY, JLD-1)
• Carl Sitton, Clemson (H-2, WRT, NB)
• Lois Thompson, Kentucky U. (NY, JLD-1)
• Hope Sadler, Clemson (H-1, JLD-2)
• Dan Blake, Vanderbilt (H-2)
• William Fisher, North Carolina (JLD-2)

• Joseph Lee Kirby-Smith, Sewanee (H-2, WRT, NB-s)
• Branch Johnson, Virginia (NY, JLD-1)
• Walter Council, Virginia (NY, JLD-1)
• Frank Foust, North Carolina (H-1)
• Ephraim Kirby-Smith, Sewanee (NB)
• Harold Ketron, Georgia (H-2)

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• Henry Phillips†, Sewanee (College Football Hall of Fame) (H-1, NY, JLD-1, WRT, NB [as t])
• Marvin O. Bridges†, Cumberland (H-1 [as t], NY, JLD-1, WRT [as t], NB [as hb])
• Puss Derrick, Clemson (JLD-2, WRT)
• Oliver Gardner, North Carolina A & M (H-1)
• T. B. Green, Tennessee (NB)
• W. W. Suddarth, Cumberland (NB)
• Innis Brown, Vanderbilt (H-2)
• Bully Jones, North Carolina (H-2)
• James C. Elmer, Virginia (JLD-2, NB-s)
• Green, Mississippi A&M (NB-s)

• Red Smith, Cumberland (H-1, WRT, NB)
• Clyde Conner, Virginia (NY, JLD-1)
• Roach Stewart, North Carolina (H-2)
• Percy Given, Georgetown (JLD-2)

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• John Maxwell, Clemson (H-1, JLD-2, WRT, NB)
• John Pollard, Virginia (NY, JLD-1)
• Frank Kyle, Vanderbilt (H-2)
• John Scarbrough, Sewanee (NB-s)

===Halfbacks===

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• 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)
• Hunter Carpenter, VPI (College Football Hall of Fame) (NY, JLD-1)
• Rupert Colmore, Sewanee (H-2, NB)
• Fritz Furtick, Clemson (H-2)
• Wister Heald, Virginia (JLD-2)
• Hub Hart, Georgetown (JLD-2)

• Jock Hanvey†, Clemson (H-1, NY, JLD-1, WRT, NB)
• E. L. Minton, Cumberland (H-2)
• Hogan Yancey, Kentucky U. (JLD-2)
• Sam Y. Parker, Tennessee (NB-2)

Bold = consensus choice by a majority of the selectors

† = Unanimous selection

H = selected by John Heisman, coach at Clemson University.{{cite news|newspaper=Atlanta Constitution|date=November 29, 1903|title=Sadler Is Made Captain of All-Southern Team|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1924578/the_atlanta_constitution/|page=11|accessdate=March 5, 2015|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Open access}}

WRT = selected by W. R. Tichenor.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P11LAAAAYAAJ&q=derrick+clemson+%22all+southern%22|title=A History of Southern Football 1890-1928|author=Fuzzy Woodruff|author-link=Fuzzy Woodruff|page=280|year=1928}}

NB = selected by former Tennessee player Nash Buckingham in the Memphis Commercial Appeal.{{cite news|url=http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/atlnewspapers/id:aga1907-4812|title=Some Past All-Southerns|work=Atlanta Georgian|date=December 9, 1907|page=12|accessdate=March 5, 2015|via=Digital Library of Georgia}} {{Open access}}{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2986470/the_cincinnati_enquirer/|title=The Best in the South|work=The Cincinnati Enquirer|page=3|date=November 30, 1903|accessdate=August 10, 2015|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Open access}} It had substitutes, denoted with a small S.

NY = selected by a prominent New Yorker hired for the purpose.{{Cite news|url = http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/HistArchive/?p_product=EANX&p_theme=ahnp&p_nbid=E57W4FHFMTQxMDkzNjg1OS45NzI2Mjg6MToxMzoxMzIuMTk4LjUwLjEz&p_action=doc&s_lastnonissuequeryname=16&d_viewref=search&p_queryname=16&p_docnum=2&p_docref=v2:11DF9354DC3283FB@EANX-11E5852EFA636728@2416631-11E3425A8A6AEA78@9-137C5F7F6608D33A@All-Southern%20Team%20University%20of%20Virginia%20Represented%20in%20the%20Makeup|title = All-Southern Team|date = May 30, 1904|work = Baltimore American}}

JLD = selected by John Longer Desaulles. It had a first and second team.{{Cite news|url = http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/HistArchive/?p_product=EANX&p_theme=ahnp&p_nbid=E57W4FHFMTQxMDkzNjg1OS45NzI2Mjg6MToxMzoxMzIuMTk4LjUwLjEz&p_action=doc&s_lastnonissuequeryname=16&d_viewref=search&p_queryname=16&p_docnum=3&p_docref=v2:11210D30DA68B248@EANX-112D32A1A96FD578@2416720-112D32A260BCB4F0@4-112D32A513322770@Johnny%20Desaulles%20Picks%20All-Southern%20Football%20Team|title = Johnny Desaulles Picks All-Southern Football Team|date = August 27, 1904|work = The State}}[https://books.google.com/books?id=3gs7AQAAMAAJ&dq=John+Hanvey+clemson+football&pg=PA88 Spalding's Football Guide]

{{Reflist}}

{{1903 College Football Composite All-Southerns}}

{{College Football All-Southern Teams}}

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