1903 College Football All-Southern Team

Fuzzy Woodruff relates: "The first selections that had any pretense of being backed by a judicial consideration were made by W. Reynolds Tichenor, old-time Auburn quarterback, who had kept in intimate contact with football through being a sought-after official.

The next selections were made by John W. Heisman, who was as good a judge of football men as the country ever produced.

Reynolds Tichenor's eleven as posted in Fuzzy Woodruff's A History of Southern Football includes: Bold = consensus choice by a majority of the selectors † = Unanimous selection H = selected by John Heisman, coach at Clemson University.

[8] NB = selected by former Tennessee player Nash Buckingham in the Memphis Commercial Appeal.

[9][10] It had substitutes, denoted with a small S. NY = selected by a prominent New Yorker hired for the purpose.