1903 College Football All-Southern Team

Tichenor's eleven

• J. C. Anderson, halfback for Cumberland.
• Bob Blake, end for Vanderbilt, unanimous selection, was a lawyer and Rhodes Scholar selected for the Associated Press Southeast Area All-Time football team 1869-1919 era.
• Marvin O. Bridges, guard for Cumberland, unanimous selection. The next season, he coached the University of Florida at Lake City.
• Puss Derrick, guard for Clemson.
• Jock Hanvey, fullback for Clemson, unanimous selection. He assisted teammate Pee Wee Forsythe coach the Florida State College team.
• Joseph Lee Kirby-Smith, tackle for Sewanee, the son of Edmund Kirby-Smith. He later moved to Jacksonville, Florida as a practicing dermatologist and gaining distinction throughout Florida and the south.
• John Maxwell, quarterback for Clemson. He returned the kickoff to open the second half 100 yards for Clemson's first score in the game with Cumberland billed as the championship of the South, which ended in an 11–11 tie.
• Henry D. Phillips, guard for Sewanee, unanimous selection. Sportswriter Fuzzy Woodruff called him "the greatest football player who ever sank cleated shoes into a chalk line south of the Mason-Dixon line." He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1959.
• Carl Sitton, end for Clemson. One publication reads "Vetter Sitton and Hope Sadler were the finest ends that Clemson ever had perhaps." He also played baseball.
• Red Smith, center for Cumberland. Cumberland coach A. L. Phillips said Smith was the "only man he ever saw who has reduced football to a science."
• John J. Tigert, halfback for Vanderbilt. Like Blake, he too was a Rhodes Scholar. He was later a prominent educator, including the president of the University of Florida and the U.S. Commissioner of Education. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1970.

  All-Southerns of 1903

Ends

• Bob Blake†, Vanderbilt
• Carl Sitton, Clemson
• Lois Thompson, Kentucky U.
• Hope Sadler, Clemson
• Dan Blake, Vanderbilt
• William Fisher, North Carolina

  Tackles

• Joseph Lee Kirby-Smith, Sewanee
• Branch Johnson, Virginia
• Walter Council, Virginia
• Frank Foust, North Carolina
• Ephraim Kirby-Smith, Sewanee
• Harold Ketron, Georgia

  Guards

• Henry Phillips†, Sewanee
• Marvin O. Bridges†, Cumberland
• Puss Derrick, Clemson
• Oliver Gardner, North Carolina A & M
• T. B. Green, Tennessee
• W. W. Suddarth, Cumberland
• Innis Brown, Vanderbilt
• Bully Jones, North Carolina
• James C. Elmer, Virginia
• Green, Mississippi A&M

  Centers

• Red Smith, Cumberland
• Clyde Conner, Virginia
• Roach Stewart, North Carolina
• Percy Given, Georgetown

  Quarterbacks

• John Maxwell, Clemson
• John Pollard, Virginia
• Frank Kyle, Vanderbilt
• John Scarbrough, Sewanee

  Halfbacks

• John J. Tigert, Vanderbilt
• J. C. "Dog" Anderson, Cumberland
• Joe Reilly, Georgetown
• Hunter Carpenter, VPI
• Rupert Colmore, Sewanee
• Fritz Furtick, Clemson
• Wister Heald, Virginia
• Hub Hart, Georgetown

  Fullbacks

• Jock Hanvey†, Clemson
• E. L. Minton, Cumberland
• Hogan Yancey, Kentucky U.
• Sam Y. Parker, Tennessee

  Key