1927 College Football All-Southern Team
Bill Spears was a near unanimous selection.
The 1927 College Football All-Southern Team consists of American football players selected to the College Football All-Southern Teams selected by various organizations in for the 1927 Southern Conference football season .
Composite eleven
John Barnhill as coach.
The All-Southern eleven compiled by the Associated Press included:
John Barnhill , guard for Tennessee, second-team AP All-American, later head coach at his alma mater.
Elvin Butcher , center for Tennessee. His play against Vanderbilt helped secure the spot on the eleven, as he outplayed Vandy center Vernon Sharpe , who arguably had the better season.[ 1]
Dick Dodson , halfback for Tennessee, set a record with a 91 yard run versus Transylvania .[ 2] [ 3] It's still the second longest run in Tennessee history, broken with a 99 yard run by Kelsey Finch against Florida in 1977. In the Tennessee-Vanderbilt game of '27, Dodson carried the ball but four times, yet was the main reason for Tennessee keeping the game a tie.[ 4]
Herdis McCrary , fullback for Georgia, second-team AP and UP All-American. Known as "Bull," he played in the National Football League for the Green Bay Packers from 1929 to 1933.[ 5]
Tom Nash , end for Georgia, consensus All-American. He played professionally for the Green Bay Packers, selected All-Pro in 1932.
Fred Pickhard , tackle and captain for Alabama, second-team CP and UP All-American.
Ivey Shiver , end and captain for Georgia's "dream and wonder team." Known as "Chick," he was first-team AP All-American. He played professional baseball for the Detroit Tigers and Cincinnati Reds .
Gene Smith , guard for Georgia, third-team AP All-American. He played in the NFL for the Portsmouth Spartans .
Bill Spears , quarterback for Vanderbilt, nearest to a unanimous selection, first-team AP All-American, inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1962. He was speedy and rarely threw an interception.
Stumpy Thomason , halfback for Georgia Tech, played in the NFL for the Brooklyn Dodgers and Philadelphia Eagles .
Jess Tinsley , tackle for LSU, cousin of Gaynell Tinsley . He played in the NFL for the Chicago Cardinals .
Composite overview
Bill Spears received the most selections from the Associated Press composite. Sixty four votes in all were cast.
All-Southerns of 1927
Ends
Ivey "Chick" Shiver , Georgia (AP-1, UP-1, CP, WMA, EB)
Tom Nash *, Georgia (AP-1, UP-2, C, WMA, EB)
Ed Crowley , Georgia Tech (AP-2, UP-1, WMA)
Larry "Kitty" Creson , Vanderbilt (AP-2, UP-2, C, WMA)
Rags Matthews , Texas Christian (College Football Hall of Fame) (CP)
H. S. Spotts, Washington & Lee (AP-c, WMA-r)
Allyn McKeen , Tennessee (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-c)
Ap Applewhite , Mississippi (AP-c)
Pinkie Thornhill, VMI (UP-c)
H. R. Lewis, Mississippi A & M (UP-c)
Moss, VMI (UP-c)
Patrick Brown, Tulane (WMA-r)
Tackles
Fred Pickhard , Alabama (AP-1, UP-1, CP, WMA, EB)
Jess Tinsley , LSU (AP-1, UP-2)
Glenn Lautzenhiser , Georgia (AP-2, UP-1)
Dave McArthur , Tennessee (AP-2, C)
Garrett Morehead , North Carolina (UP-2)
B. Winston Cardwell, Virginia (UP-c, CP, WMA)
E. J. Hood, Georgia Tech (UP-c, WMA)
Bill Brunson , Mississippi A & M (AP-c, UP-c)
Duke Kimbrough , Sewanee (AP-c)
Clark Pearce , Alabama (AP-c)
Earl Fitzpatrick, Washington and Lee (AP-c)
Kenneth Rugh, VMI (UP-c)
Guy Nesom, LSU (UP-c)
Donald Adams, Maryland (UP-c)
Frank Speer , Georgia Tech (C)
Warren, LSU (WMA-r)
Guards
John Barnhill , Tennessee (AP-1, UP-1, C, CP, WMA, EB-as T)
Gene Smith , Georgia (AP-1, UP-1, CP, WMA, EB)
Jim Bowdoin , Alabama (AP-2, UP-2, C, WMA)
V. K. Smith , Ole Miss (AP-2)
B. B. Tips, Washington & Lee (UP-2, WMA-r)
Raleigh Drennon , Georgia Tech (AP-c, UP-c, EB)
V. E. Miles , VPI (AP-c)
Arthur Tripp , Tennessee (UP-c)
Bud Shuler, North Carolina (UP-c)
L. R. Thompson, Mississippi A & M (WMA)
Centers
Elvin Butcher , Tennessee (AP-1, UP-2, CP, WMA)
Vernon Sharpe , Vanderbilt (AP-2, UP-1, WMA)
Harry Schwartz , North Carolina (AP-c)
Peter Pund , Georgia Tech (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-c, C)
William Patterson, Auburn (AP-c, WMA-r)
Ike Boland , Georgia (EB)
Shep Mondy, VMI (WMA-r)
Quarterbacks
Bill Spears , Vanderbilt (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1, UP-1, C, CP, WMA, EB)
Johnny Menville , Tulane (UP-2, WMA)
Babe Godfrey, LSU (WMA-r)
Halfbacks
Stumpy Thomason , Georgia Tech (AP-1, UP-1, C, EB)
Dick Dodson , Tennessee (AP-1, UP-1, WMA-r)
Jack McDowall , North Carolina State (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-2 [as qb], UP-2, C, WMA)
Phoney Smith , Mercer (AP-2)
Bill Banker , Tulane (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-2, UP-c)
Frank Peake , VPI (AP-c)
Al Barnes , VMI (UP-2)
Bobby Hooks , Georgia (UP-c, CP, EB)
Warner Mizell , Georgia Tech (CP)
John Sloan, Virginia (UP-c)
Davis Brasfield, Alabama (UP-c)
Gene White, Washington & Lee (UP-c)
Fred Linkus, Maryland (UP-c)
Roy Estes , Georgia (WMA)
Lewis Thomas, Maryland (WMA)
Red Brown , Alabama (WMA)
Bud Eskew, Clemson (WMA-r)
Reuben Wilcox, Mississippi
Fullbacks
Herdis McCrary , Georgia (AP-1, UP-1, C, CP, EB)
Jimmy Armistead , Vanderbilt (AP-2, UP-c)
Bill Middlekauff , Florida (AP-c, UP-2, WMA)
Sollie Cohen , Mississippi (AP-c, WMA)
Tom Young , North Carolina (AP-c)
Tom Shotts , Auburn (WMA-r)
Key
Bold = Composite selection
* = Consensus All-American
AP = composite selected by the Associated Press . It had a first and second team.[ 6]
UP = composite selected by the United Press . It had a first and second team.[ 7] Those who received selections despite missing first or second team are appended with a C.
C = composite selected by six sporting editors: Blinkey Horn of the Nashville Tennessean , Ralph McGill of the Nashville Banner , Zipp Newman of the Birmingham News , Bib Phillips of the Birmingham Age-Herald , Morgan Blake of the Atlanta Journal , and Ed Danforth of the Atlanta Georgian .[ 8]
CP = selected by football fans of the South through Central Press newspapers.[ 9]
WMA = selected by coaches Wallace Wade of Alabama , Dan McGugin of Vanderbilt , and William Alexander of Georgia Tech , for a roster spot on a team set to face an All-Pacific Coast squad in Los Angeles on Christmas Day .[ 10] [ 11] [ 12] [ 13] [ 14] It also include reserves.
EB = selected by Miss Emily Boyd, sports editor of the Griffin Daily News , the only woman sports editor in the south.[ 15]
See also
References
^ "Four Georgia Grid Stars Voted Places On United Press Conference Team" . Banner-Herald . November 23, 1917.
^ "TENNESSEE VS. MEMPHIS -- GAME PREVIEW" . Archived from the original on December 23, 2014.
^ "Vols Down Marshall On A Stormy Day" .
^ "Backfielders In South Get Real Mention" . Sarasota Herald-Tribune . November 15, 1927.
^ "Herdis McCrary NFL Football Statistics" . Pro-Football-Reference.com . Sports Reference LLC.
^ "Spears Given Highest Vote in Selection" . Sarasota Herald-Tribune . November 27, 1927.
^ "Four Georgia Grid Stars Voted Places On United Press Conference Team" . Banner-Herald . November 23, 1917.
^ Morgan Blake (December 11, 1927). "Barnhill, M'Arthur Honored On Selection" . p. 17.
^ "Southern Team". The Kingsport Times . November 12, 1927.
^ "30 Stars Play On All-Southern Team". Appleton Post Crescent . November 29, 1927.
^ " 'Bama Star Is Captain Of Eleven". The Bismarck Tribune . December 22, 1927.
^ "All-Southern Team Comes From 20 Stars". Gastonia Daily Gazette . December 1, 1927.
^ "All-American Back Leads Dixie Forces in Invasion" . The Billings Gazette . December 21, 1927. p. 8. Retrieved August 5, 2015 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Southern Grid Team Is Named" . St. Petersburg Times . December 10, 1927.
^ "Girl Sports Editor In South Picks Her All-Star Eleven" (PDF) . Jamestown Evening Herald . December 3, 1927.