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2. Composite overview

3. All-Southerns of 1915
     Ends    Tackles    Guards    Centers    Quarterbacks    Halfbacks    Fullbacks  

4. Key

5. See also

6. References

The 1915 College Football All-Southern Team consists of American football players selected to the College Football All-Southern Teams selected by various organizations in 1915. Josh Cody and Baby Taylor were selected third-team All-Americans by Walter Camp, and Bully Van de Graaff was selected for his second-team. Van de Graaff was Alabama's first ever All-American. Buck Mayer of the 8–1 Virginia Cavaliers was the south's first consensus All-American, selected first-team All-American by Frank G. Menke and Parke H. Davis. The "point-a-minute" Vanderbilt Commodores won the SIAA.

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The composite All-Southern team selected by ten sports writers and coaches included:

• Josh Cody, tackle for Vanderbilt, inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1970, only three-time All-American in Vanderbilt football history. Third-team Camp All-American. He was selected for the Associated Press Southeast Area All-Time football team 1869-1919 era.^[1] Later a prominent football coach at many institutions.
• Rabbit Curry, quarterback for Vanderbilt, unanimous selection. During the First World War, he was killed in aerial combat over France. He was a beloved player of Coach McGugin, described by one writer as "the player who has most appealed to the imagination, admiration, and affection of the entire university community through the years."^[2]
• Russ Cohen, end for Vanderbilt, later an assistant under Wallace Wade at Alabama and head coach at LSU and Cincinnati.
• Wooch Fielder, halfback for Georgia Tech, later an influential veteran of the Second World War.
• John G. Henderson, center for Georgia, the head of a group of three men, one behind the other with his hands upon the shoulders of the one in front, to counter Georgia Tech's jump shift offense utilized by John Heisman.^[3] The game ended 0–0. He also played baseball and was later Georgia baseball coach.
• Bob Lang, guard for Georgia Tech, the first guard selected for the Heisman era All-Era Tech football team.
• Walter Neville, fullback for Georgia, made All-Southern in his first year on the varsity.
• David Paddock, quarterback for Georgia, the only player in school history to have a petition circulated by the student body requesting that he play for the Bulldogs.
• Baby Taylor, guard for Auburn, unanimous selection. Weighing just under 200 pounds, Taylor would be a small player today, but he was then considered quite large, "worth three ordinary men."^[4] Miss Virginia Gilmer, an Auburn fan of some 13 years of age once told Taylor that “if she were a boy and as big as he and had any sense at all she would be an all-southern tackle.”^[5] Third-team Camp All-American
• Charlie Thompson, end for Georgia, captain-elect but ruled ineligible for next year.
• Bully Van de Graaff, tackle for Alabama, unanimous selection. He was selected for the Associated Press Southeast Area All-Time football team 1869-1919 era.^[1] Alabama's first All-American, and brother of the inventor of the Van de Graaff generator which produces high voltages. Second-team Camp All-American.

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Bully Van de Graaff, Baby Taylor, and Rabbit Curry were unanimous selections.

All-Southerns of 1915

Ends

• Charlie Thompson, Georgia {{anchor|mwLw}}{{small|(C, DJ)}}
• Russ Cohen, Vanderbilt {{anchor|mwMg}}{{small|(C, NT)}}
• Neil Edmond, Sewanee {{anchor|mwNA}}{{small|(C, TC, NT, SP)}}
• Jim Senter, Georgia Tech {{anchor|mwNg}}{{small|(C, TC, H, SP)}}
• Roy Homewood, North Carolina {{anchor|mwOA}}{{small|(C, H)}}

Tackles

• Bully Van de Graaff†, Alabama {{anchor|mwPg}}{{small|(C, TC, H [as fb], DJ, NT, SP)}}
• Josh Cody, Vanderbilt (College Football Hall of Fame) {{anchor|mwQQ}}{{small|(C, TC, H, DJ [as e], NT, SP [as g])}}
• Phillip Cooper, LSU {{anchor|mwQw}}{{small|(C)}}
• Ted Shultz, Washington & Lee {{anchor|mwRQ}}{{small|(C, DJ)}}
• Tom Thrash, Georgia {{anchor|mwRw}}{{small|(C, H)}}

Guards

• G. E. "Baby" Taylor†, Auburn {{anchor|mwTA}}{{small|(C, TC, H, DJ, NT, SP)}}
• Bob Lang, Georgia Tech {{anchor|mwTg}}{{small|(C)}}
• Bob Taylor Dobbins, Sewanee {{anchor|mwUA}}{{small|(C, TC, NT, SP [as t])}}
• Pryor Williams, Vanderbilt {{anchor|mwUw}}{{small|(C)}}
• C. M. Hamilton, Vanderbilt {{anchor|mwVQ}}{{small|(C)}}
• George Steed, Auburn {{anchor|mwVw}}{{small|(C, H)}}
• Kirby Lee Spurlock, Mississippi A&M {{anchor|mwTg}}{{small|(DJ)}}

Centers

• John Henderson, Georgia {{anchor|mwWw}}{{small|(C, TC, NT, SP)}}
• Yank Tandy, North Carolina {{anchor|mwXg}}{{small|(C, H, DJ)}}
• Carey Robinson, Auburn {{anchor|mwYA}}{{small|(C)}}
• R. McArthur, Mississippi A & M {{anchor|mwYw}}{{small|(C)}}

Quarterbacks

• Rabbit Curry†, Vanderbilt {{anchor|mwaQ}}{{small|(C, TC, H [as hb], DJ, NT, SP)}}
• David Paddock, Georgia {{anchor|mwbA}}{{small|(C, TC, NT [as hb], SP [as hb])}}

Halfbacks

• Wooch Fielder, Georgia Tech {{anchor|mwcQ}}{{small|(C, TC, H)}}
• Froggie Morrison, Georgia Tech {{anchor|mwcw}}{{small|(C, H [as qb], NT)}}
• Everett Strupper, Georgia Tech (College Football Hall of Fame) {{anchor|mwdg}}{{small|(C, SP)}}
• Paul Squibb, Chattanooga {{anchor|mweA}}{{small|(C)}}
• Johnny Barrett, Washington & Lee {{anchor|mweg}}{{small|(C, DJ)}}
• Buck Mayer, Virginia {{anchor|mwfQ}}{{small|(C, DJ [as fb])}}
• Homer Prendergast, Auburn {{anchor|mweA}}{{small|(C)}}
• Clyde Littlefield, Texas {{anchor|mwfw}}{{small|(DJ)}}

Fullbacks

• Walter Neville, Georgia {{anchor|mwgw}}{{small|(C)}}
• Charles C. Schrader, Kentucky {{anchor|mwhg}}{{small|(C, SP)}}
• Hal Hunter, Transylvania {{anchor|mwiA}}{{small|(C, NT)}}
• Pete Mailhes, Tulane {{anchor|mwig}}{{small|(C)}}
• Bedie Bidez, Auburn {{anchor|mwjA}}{{small|(C)}}
• Hubert Wiggs, Vanderbilt {{small|(TC)}}

Key

See also

• 1915 College Football All-America Team

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