1908 College Football All-Southern Team

The eleven selected by a majority of selectors included:

• Vaughn Blake, end for Vanderbilt. One of the prominent Vanderbilt Blake family, he was later an FBI agent involved in the capture of Alvin Karpis.[1]
• C. C. Countess, center for Alabama. The school's first All-Southern player.[2]
• J. R. Davis, tackle for Georgia Tech; Davis was known as "Twenty percent" because he was considered twenty percent of the team's worth.[3] Vanderbilt coach Dan McGugin wrote, "He has one glaring fault—a tendency to tackle around the eyebrows. Otherwise he is a splendid foot ball man. He weighs two hundred pounds, is never hurt, never fumbles, bucks a line hard and furnishes excellent interference. He was the strength and stay of Tech."[4]
• Frank Faulkinberry, tackle for Sewanee, later a coach at Middle Tennessee State.
• Lewie Hardage, halfback for Auburn, had his breakout season in his first year. Fuzzy Woodruff labeled him the South's "fastest back of the 1910-1920 decade".[5]
• James L. Harris, guard for Sewanee. also played tackle and running back.
• Louis Hasslock, tackle for Vanderbilt. Before Vanderbilt played Michigan, Hasslock had been on duty at Reelfoot Lake with a militia who were to guard against night riders. When he learned he could be granted a leave of absence if he were to join his football team, he walked a distance of twenty miles through a country infested with night riders, and caught a train at Union City.[6]
• Walker Leach, halfback for Tennessee. McGugin noted "All things considered, Leach was perhaps the best football player of the year in Dixie."[4]
• Lawrence Markley, fullback and captain for Sewanee. McGugin wrote of Markley, "He has always been a very stubborn man on the defense, effective on a short plunge, and his cool head has helped to steady his team through many a crisis."[4]
• Ray Morrison, quarterback for Vanderbilt, was the best player on a team of sophomores.[7]
• Walker Reynolds, end for Auburn, was the first cousin of Walker Reynolds Tichenor.

Bold = consensus choice by a majority of the selectors

† = Unanimous selection

C = selected by a consensus of newspapers, as published in Fuzzy Woodruff's A History of Southern Football.

DM = selected by Dan McGugin, coach at Vanderbilt University.[4][8]

H = selected by John Heisman, coach at Georgia Institute of Technology.[9] with help from Grantland Rice. Both Rice and Heisman had separate second teams.[10]

NB = selected by Nash Buckingham in the Memphis Commercial Appeal.[11]

EW = selected by Edgar Wingard, coach at Louisiana State University.[12]

VA = selected by University of Virginia trainers.[13]

• 1908 College Football All-America Team