1930 College Football All-Southern Team

Pictures of the composite eleven.

The 1930 College Football All-Southern Team consists of American football players selected to the College Football All-Southern Teams selected by various organizations for the 1930 Southern Conference football season. Alabama won the Southern and national championship.

Composite eleven

The All-Southern eleven compiled by the Associated Press included:

  • Jerry Dalrymple, end for Tulane, elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1954.[1]
  • Bobby Dodd, quarterback for Tennessee, later coached Georgia Tech to a national title, inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1993.
  • Milton Leathers, guard for Georgia
  • Vance Maree, tackle for Georgia Tech. One writer said Maree and Frank Speer had the reputation as "the toughest pair of tackles in the south."[2]
  • Buddy Hackman, halfback for Tennessee. Hackman filled the role of Gene McEver, who missed the entire season with torn ligaments in his knee.[3] He was inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame in 1974.[3]
  • Jack Roberts, fullback for Georgia. Known as "The Ripper", he later played in the National Football League.
  • Lloyd Roberts, center and captain for Tulane.
  • Fred Sington, tackle for Alabama. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1955. Sington was chosen for an Associated Press Southeast Area All-Time football team 1920–1969 era.
  • Vernon "Catfish" Smith, end for Georgia, made an all-time Georgia Bulldogs football team picked in 1935.[4]
  • Jimmy Steele, guard for Florida.
  • John Suther, halfback for Alabama. Suther described the feeling before the Tennessee game, which Alabama won 18–6. "Coach Wade was boiling mad. He was like a blood-thirsty drill sergeant anyway, and those critics made him more fiery ... He challenged us to help him shut up the loudmouths that were making his life miserable."[5]

All-Southerns of 1930

Jimmy Steele

Ends

Tackles

Guards

Centers

  • Lloyd Roberts, Tulane (AP-1, UP-1, DT-2)
  • Ned Lipscomb, North Carolina (AP-2, UP-2, DT-1)

Quarterbacks

  • Bobby Dodd†, Tennessee (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1, UP-1, DT-1)
  • Austin Downes, Georgia (AP-2, UP-2, DT-2)

Halfbacks

Fullbacks

Key

Bold = Composite selection

* = Consensus All-American

† = Unanimous Selection

AP = compiled from southern coaches and sportswriters by the Associated Press. It had a first and second team.[6]

UP = compiled from 20 of 23 southern coaches by the United Press.[7] It had a first and second team.

DT = selected by the Daily Tar Heel.[8] It had a first and second team.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "National Football Foundation".
  2. ↑ Davis, Ralph (October 10, 1930). "Tech Leader Awaiting Test". The Pittsburgh Press.
  3. 1 2 "Hackman, Joseph Sandy "Buddy"".
  4. ↑ George Trevor. "All-Time All-Star Team". Tulane University Football Program-The Greenie; Georgia vs. Tulane.
  5. ↑ "Alabama-Tennessee: A Southern Tradition". October 23, 2008. Archived from the original on February 12, 2015.
  6. ↑ Dillow Graham (December 4, 1930). "Unanimous Vote of Coaches and Sports Writers Places Dodd At Top of Quarterback Candidates". The Kingsport Times. p. 2. Retrieved March 4, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ↑ "All-Southern Squad Chosen". The San Bernardino County Sun. November 29, 1930. p. 21. Retrieved March 4, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ↑ "Tar Heel's All-Southern Teams". The Daily Tar Heel. December 2, 1930. p. 3. Retrieved March 4, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
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