College Football All-Southern Team

Notable pickers of All-Southern teams include John Heisman, Dan McGugin, George C. Marshall, Grantland Rice, W. A. Lambeth, Reynolds Tichenor, Nash Buckingham, Innis Brown, and Dick Jemison.

Princeton's 115-0 drubbing of Virginia in 1890 marked football's arrival in the south by playing a northern school.

The SIAA was the oldest of these, founded in the winter of 1894 by Vanderbilt chemistry professor William Lofland Dudley.

[6] The dominance of Ivy League players on Camp's All-America teams led to criticism over the years that his selections were biased against players from the leading Western universities (then in America the West meant the Great Lakes region), including Chicago, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Notre Dame.

For example, Wilton S. Farnsworth's All-American eleven of 1910 for the New York Evening Journal was made up of five players from Harvard, two from West Point, and one each from Yale, Princeton, Penn, and Brown.

But the western institutions have not yet mastered the eastern knowledge of all the details and fine points of the game.

Smith has made a great record against the west and even against Cornell, but the Ithacan center was not a master of his position.

When brought to face a man like the Stillman of today or the Bulliet of last year, Smith would simply be lost and entirely out generaled.

"[7] The article noted: "Eastern sporting editors must be devoid of all sense of humor, judging by the way in which they permit their football writers to pick 'All-American' elevens.

What man in the lot that have picked 'All-American' elevens this fall, saw a single game outside the North Atlantic States?

To illustrate an example of this, Chicago punter Clarence Herschberger in 1898 and Michigan back Willie Heston in 1903 made Camp's first team.

[20][21] On the selection committee were Zipp Newman, Jack Hairston, Jesse Outlar, Cawood Ledford, Bud Montet, Carl Walters, and Raymond Johnson.