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1917 College Football All-Southern Team


The 1917 College Football All-Southern Team consists of American football players selected to the College Football All-Southern Teams selected by various organizations for the 1917 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. Georgia Tech won the SIAA and the south's first national championship. Walker Carpenter and Everett Strupper were the first two players from the Deep South selected first-team All-American.

The composite All-Southern eleven formed by the selection of 7 coaches and sporting writers included:

Seven players were unanimous All-Southern.

Bold = Composite selection

* = Consensus All-American

† = Unanimous selection

C = composite selection picked by seven football writers in the South. The seven were Dick Jemison, John Heisman, Morgan Blake, Fred Bodeker, George Watkins, Fred Digby, and Blinkey Horn.

DJ = selected by Dick Jemison, sporting editor for the Atlanta Constitution.

MB = selected by Morgan Blake, sporting editor for the Atlanta Georgian.


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