1913 College Football All-Southern Team

Big Thigpen of Auburn was a unanimous selection.

The composite All-Southern eleven formed by the selection of 18 sporting writers culled by the Atlanta Constitution included:

• Enoch Brown, end and captain for Vanderbilt, unanimous selection. Known as "Nuck," he was also a Rhodes Scholar.[1]
• Tom Brown, tackle for Vanderbilt, unanimous selection. He played professional football with the Toledo Maroons and was later a prominent physician of Toledo. "He had no peers in his orthopedic ability and contributed greatly to Toledo medicine."[2]
• Red Harris, fullback for Auburn. One writer describes his featured role in the offense: "Coach Donahue loved the fullback dive and would run the play over and over again before sending the elusive Newell wide on a sweep."[3]
• R. N. MacCallum, guard for Sewanee. MacCallum was later a reverend serving several parishes.
• Bob McWhorter, halfback for Georgia. He was the school's first All-American, inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1954. Sportswriter Dick Jemison said "When you mention football to an Athens fan its definition is Bob McWhorter, and vice-versa."[4] He was selected for the Associated Press Southeast Area All-Time football team 1869-1919 era.[5] McWhorter later had a lengthy law career.
• Kirk Newell, halfback and captain for Auburn. Newell gained 1,707 yards that year, 46% of the team's entire offensive output;[6] and 5,800 yards rushing, 350 yards receiving, and 1,200 yards on punt returns for his career.[7]
• David Paddock, quarterback for Georgia. He is the only player in school history to have a petition circulated by the student body requesting that he play for the Bulldogs.[8]
• Boozer Pitts, center for Auburn. He later coached and was once professor of mathematics at Auburn.
• Robbie Robinson, end for Auburn. Robinson is selected at the end position for several all-time Auburn teams.[9]
• Big Thigpen, guard for Auburn, unanimous selection. The Atlanta Constitution claimed he "rated as good as, if not better than, any guard in the south."[10]
• Paul Turner, tackle for Georgia. His defensive work in the rivalry game against Georgia Tech was cited as helping the Bulldogs on the way to a 14–0 victory.[11]

Enoch Brown, Tom Brown, and Big Thigpen were unanimous selections.

Bold = Composite selection

† = Unanimous selection

C = received votes for a composite All-Southern eleven compiled from 18 sports writers by the Atlanta Constitution.[12]

ZC = compiled from sports writers, coaches, and others by Z. G. Clevenger, coach at University of Tennessee[13] The coaches involved in the compilation were Clevenger of Tenn, Cunningham of Georgia, Graves of Alabama, Major of Clemson, Hardage of Mercer; McGugin of Vanderbilt, Cope of Sewanee, and Heisman of Tech. McWhorter and Rainey tied in votes, as many moved McWhorter to fullback to make room for him.

SP = posted by coach Bill Cunningham of the University of Georgia, combining selections of sports writers and coaches in the South.[14]

BC = the personal selection of coach Cunningham of Georgia.[15]

D = selected by Mike Donahue, coach at Auburn University.[13] It had a first and second team.

AP = posted by the Associated Press.[16]

WL = W. A. Lambeth of the University of Virginia.[17]

AR = member of a Southern all star team which played against the Seventeenth Infantry of Army at West Point.[18] It featured stars of previous seasons as well.

• 1913 College Football All-America Team