The All-Southern eleven compiled by the Associated Press included: Bill Spears received the most selections from the Associated Press composite.
[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.
EB = selected by Miss Emily Boyd, sports editor of the Griffin Daily News, the only woman sports editor in the south.