The 1922 College Football All-Southern Team consists of college football players chosen by various organizations and writers for College Football All-Southern Teams for the 1922 Southern Conference football season. It was the first season of the Southern Conference.
Vanderbilt end Lynn Bomar and Georgia Tech running back Red Barron were the only two unanimous choices of a composite of selectors. Walter Camp picked no Southerners for his first-team All-American, but picked Bomar and Barron for his second team.
The composite All-Southern eleven compiled from twenty four coaches and sporting editors of the South each of whom received trophies from the Atlanta Journal included:
Name | Position | School | First-team selections |
---|---|---|---|
Lynn Bomar | End/Tackle | Vanderbilt | 24 |
Red Barron | Halfback | Georgia Tech | 24 |
Oscar Davis | Guard | Georgia Tech | 23 |
Herb Covington | Quarterback | Centre | 22 |
John Shirey | Halfback | Auburn | 22 |
Red Roberts | End/Guard/Tackle/Fullback | Centre | 19 |
Albert Staton | Tackle | Georgia Tech | 11 |
Joe Bennett | Tackle | Georgia | 11 |
Claire Frye | Center | Georgia Tech | 10 |
John Fletcher | Fullback | Georgia | 9 |
Puss Whelchel | Guard | Georgia | 8 |
James Pearce | Tackle/Guard | Auburn | 7 |
Ed Kubale | Center | Centre | 7 |
Shorty Propst | Center/Guard | Alabama | 6 |
Scotty Neill | End | Vanderbilt | 5 |
Rip Reagan | Guard | Auburn | 5 |
Slick Moulton | End | Auburn | 4 |
John Staton | End | Georgia Tech | 3 |
Eddie Reed | Center | Tulane | 3 |
Roe Campbell | Fullback | Tennessee | 3 |
Al Clemens | End | Alabama | 2 |
Jack Hovater | Tackle | Alabama | 2 |
Thug Murray | Tackle | Sewanee | 2 |
Tex Bradford | Tackle | Vanderbilt | 2 |
Ed Sherling | Fullback | Auburn | 2 |
Tarzan Holt | End | Tennessee | 1 |
Cliff Lemon | End | Centre | 1 |
Blood Miller | End | Sewanee | 1 |
Crook Smith | End | Mercer | 1 |
Edgar David | End | Oglethorpe | 1 |
Charles R. Fenwick | Tackle | Virginia | 1 |
Martin | Tackle | – | 1 |
Tex Tilson | Tackle | VPI | 1 |
Yen Lightsey | Tackle | Clemson | 1 |
L. O. Wesley | Guard | Alabama | 1 |
Ben Compton | Guard | Alabama | 1 |
Birkett Pribble | Guard | Kentucky | 1 |
Grady Pritchard | Guard | North Carolina | 1 |
Tuck Kelly | Guard | Vanderbilt | 1 |
Fats Lawrence | Center | Auburn | 1 |
Johnson | Center | Mercer | 1 |
Pooley Hubert | Fullback | Alabama | 1 |
Red Johnston | Fullback | North Carolina | 1 |
* = Consensus All-American
† = Unanimous selection
C = received votes for the composite All-Southern eleven compiled from twenty four coaches and sporting editors of the South.[4][5]
BE = Billy Evans's Southern Honor Roll.[6]
MA = selected by the Montgomery Advertiser.[7]
ZN = selected by Zipp Newman, sporting editor for the Birmingham News.[7][8][9]
ED = selected by Ed Danforth, sporting editor for the Atlanta Georgian.[7][8][9]
EH = selected by Ed Hebert of the Times-Picayune.[7][8][9]
MB = selected by Morgan Blake, sporting editor for the Atlanta Journal.[7][8][9]
JP = selected by J. P. Paterson, former Auburn star.[7]
MM = selected by Marvin McCarthy, sporting editor of the Birmingham Age-Herald.[8]
GHB = selected by George H. Butler of the Chattanooga News.[8][9]
BH = selected by Blinkey Horn, sporting editor of the Nashville Tennessean.[8]
HGP = selected by H. G. Pannell of the Montgomery Journal.[8][9]
JB = selected by Jimmy Burns of the Knoxville Journal-Tribune.[8]
CWA = selected by Carlyle Ward of the Montgomery Journal.[8]
JH = selected by Joe Hatcher of the Nashville Tennessean.[9]
NOI = selected by the New Orleans Item.[9]
NOS = selected by Henry Reiter of the New Orleans Daily States.
CM = selected by Centre coach Charley Moran[9]
KS = selected by the Knoxville Sentinel[9]
WGF = selected W. G. Foster and S. J. McAllister in the Chattanooga Times.[9]
MT = selected by the Macon Telegraph[9]