1973 All-Southwest Conference football team

The 1973 All-Southwest Conference football team consists of American football players chosen, at each position, as the best players in the Southwest Conference during the 1973 college football season. The selectors for the 1973 season included the Associated Press (AP) and the United Press International (UPI).

Texas running back Roosevelt Leaks set the conference single-season record with 1,415 rushing yards in 1973 and was selected as the player of the year by the AP and the offensive player of the year by the UPI.[1][2]

The AP also conducted balloting for coach of the year (Jim Carlen, Texas Tech) and newcomer of the year (Larry Isaac, Texas Tech).[1] And the UPI selected a defensive player of the year (linebacker Ed Simonini, Texas A&M) and a freshman player of the year (quarterback David Walker, Texas A&M).[2]

All Southwest selections

Quarterbacks

Running backs

Tight ends

Split ends
  • Charles Dancer, Baylor (AP-1, UPI-1)

Tight ends
  • Andre Tillman, Texas Tech (AP-1, UPI-1)

Offensive tackles
  • Bob Simmons, Texas (AP-1, UPI-1)
  • Tom Ferguson, Texas Tech (AP-1, UPI-1)

Offensive guards
  • Don Crosslin, Texas (AP-1, UPI-1)
  • Dennis Allen, Texas Tech (AP-1, UPI_1)

Centers
  • Bill Wyman, Texas (AP-1, UPI-1)

Kickers
  • Don Grimes, Texas Tech (UPI-1)

Defensive ends
  • Malcolm Minnick, Texas (AP-1)
  • Ivan Jordan, Arkansas (AP-1)
  • Jon Rhiddlehoover, Arkansas (UP-1 [line])
  • Charlie Davis, TCU (UPI-1 [line])

Defensive tackles
  • Ecomet Burley, Texas Tech (AP-1, UPI-1 [line])
  • Doug English, Texas (AP-1, UPI-1 [line])

Nose guard
  • David Knaus, Texas Tech (AP-1)

Linebackers
  • Ed Simonini, Texas A&M (AP-1, UPI-1)
  • Danny Rhodes, Arkansas (AP-1, UPI-1)
  • Dede Terveen, TCU (UPI-1)

Defensive backs
  • Bruce Henley, Rice (AP-1, UPI-1)
  • Jay Arnold, Texas (AP-1, UPI-1)
  • Danny Willis, Texas Tech (AP-1, UPI-1)
  • Kenneth Wallace, Texas Tech (AP-1, UPI-1)

Key

AP = Associated Press[1]

UPI = United Press International[2]

See also

References
  1. "Longhorns Head All-SWC Picks". The Marshall News Messenger. November 25, 1973. p. 5B – via Newspapers.com.
  2. "Leaks, Morton Head SWC Grid Team". The Longview Daily News. December 4, 1973. p. 3B – via Newspapers.com.
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