The 1899 College Football All-Southern Team consists of American football players selected to the College Football All-Southern Teams selected by various organizations in 1899. The "Iron Men" of Sewanee won the SIAA championship. The Vanderbilt Hustler remarked on Suter's selection of 9 of his own players, "Only nine! He surely must have been thinking of a baseball team."
All-Southerns of 1899
Ends Bart Sims, Sewanee (O, HMS-s) Herman Koehler, North Carolina (O) Walter Schreiner, Texas (HMS) Walter Simmons, Vanderbilt (HMS) John F. H. Barbee, Vanderbilt (HMS-s)
Tackles W. Hamilton†, Georgia (O, HMS [as g]) John Loyd, Virginia (O) Deacon Jones, Sewanee (HMS) Richard Bolling, Sewanee (HMS) Andrew Ritchie, Georgia (HMS-s) James Hart, Texas (HMS-s)
Guards
William Choice, VPI (O) Wild Bill Claiborne, Sewanee (HMS) Wallace Crutchfield, Vanderbilt (O) William H. Newman, Tennessee (HMS-s)
Centers Carlos A. Long, Georgetown (O) William Poole, Sewanee (HMS) Edward Overshiner, Texas (HMS-s)
Quarterbacks Warbler Wilson†, Sewanee (O, HMS) Semp Russ, Texas (HMS-s) Ed Huguley, Auburn (HMS-s)
Halfbacks
Arthur Feagin, Auburn (O, HMS-s) Henry Seibels, Sewanee (College Football Hall of Fame) (HMS) Harry Gerstle, Virginia (O) Rex Kilpatrick, Sewanee (HMS) Orvill Burke, Vanderbilt (HMS-s) Lawrence Levert, Tulane (HMS-s) Quintard Gray, Sewanee (HMS-s) Franklin Bivings, Auburn (HMS-s)
Fullbacks Ormond Simkins, Sewanee (HMS) Robert M. Coleman, Virginia (O) John H. McIntosh, Georgia (HMS-s) Raymond Keller, Texas (HMS-s) Charles L. Eshleman, Tulane (HMS-s)
Key † = Unanimous selection
O = selected by W. A. Lambeth in Outing.
HMS = selected by H. M. Suter, head coach at Sewanee: The University of the South. It had substitutes, denoted by a small S.
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