1902 College Football All-Southern Team

The 1902 College Football All-Southern Team consists of American football players selected to the College Football All-Southern Teams selected by various organizations for the 1902 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. Clemson won the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) championship, though Virginia was often ranked as best team in the south.

Fuzzy Woodruff's A History of Southern Football records the first All-Southern team as in 1902. 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."

Reynolds Tichenor's eleven as posted in Fuzzy Woodruff's A History of Southern Football includes:

Bold = Tichenor's selection

WRT = selected by W. R. Tichenor, posted in Fuzzy Woodruff's A History of Southern Football

WA = selected by W. A. Reynolds.

AC = selected by the Atlanta Constitution. It had substitutes, denoted with a small S.

JLD = selected by UVA coach John L. DeSaulles. It had substitutes, denoted with a small S.

H = selected by John Heisman.

WAL = selected by W. A. Lambeth for Collier's Weekly. It had a first and second team.

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