1931 College Football All-Southern Team


The 1931 College Football All-Southern Team consists of American football players selected to the College Football All-Southern Teams selected by various organizations for the 1931 Southern Conference football season. Tulane won the Southern Conference championship. In December 2008, Sports Illustrated undertook to identify the individuals who would have been awarded the Heisman Trophy in college football's early years, before the trophy was established. Tulane's Jerry Dalrymple was selected as the would-be Heisman winner for the 1931 season.

Composite eleven

The All-Southern eleven compiled by the Associated Press included:
Overview of the Associated Press composite. "Votes" were tallied as 2 points for a first-team selection and 1 for a second-team selection.
NamePositionSchoolVotes
Jerry DalrympleEndTulane180
Don ZimmermanHalfbackTulane172
Vernon "Catfish" SmithEndGeorgia171
Gene McEverHalfbackTennessee168
Austin DownesQuarterbackGeorgia145
Herman HickmanGuardTennessee126
Johnny CainFullbackAlabama122
Tex LeyendeckerTackleVanderbilt111
Ray SaundersTackleTennessee98
Pete GraceyCenterVanderbilt76
John ScafideGuardTulane69

All-Southerns of 1931

Ends

Quarterbacks

Bold = Composite selection
* = Consensus All-American
AP = selected by coaches and sports writers, compiled by the Associated Press. It had a first and second team.
CP = selected by captains of the football team of the south, compiled by Central Press newspapers.
TUL = the "All Players All-Southern", selected by the players of the Tulane team.
CO = selected by the coaches of the Southern Conference.
WA = selected by William Alexander, coach at Georgia Institute of Technology. It had a first, second, and third team.
SH = selected by Clark Shaughnessy, coach at Tulane University.