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1927 College Football All-Southern Team


The 1927 College Football All-Southern Team consists of American football players selected to the College Football All-Southern Teams selected by various organizations in for the 1927 Southern Conference football season.

The All-Southern eleven compiled by the Associated Press included:

Bill Spears received the most selections from the Associated Press composite. Sixty four votes in all were cast.

Bold = Composite selection

* = Consensus All-American

AP = composite selected by the Associated Press. It had a first and second team.

UP = composite selected by the United Press. It had a first and second team. 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.

CP = selected by football fans of the South through Central Press newspapers.

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. It also include reserves.


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