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About Alabama Crimson Tide Football
Stadium Name: Bryant-Denny
Stadium
Schedule:
Crimson Tide Schedule
Key Rivals: Georgia, Florida, Kentucky
About Alabama Crimson Tide Basketball
Stadium Name: Coleman Colliseum
Schedule:
Crimson Tide Schedule
Key Rivals: Kentucky, LSU,
About the Crimson Tide:
How the Crimson Tide Got its Name
In early newspaper accounts of Alabama football, the
team was simply listed as the "varsity" or the "Crimson
White" after the school colors.
The first nickname to become popular and used by headline writers was
the "Thin Red Line." The nickname was used until 1906.
The name "Crimson Tide" is supposed to have first been used
by Hugh Roberts, former sports editor of the Birmingham Age-Herald. He
used "Crimson Tide" in describing an Alabama-Auburn game played
in Birmingham in 1907, the last football contest between the two schools
until 1948 when the series was resumed. The game was played in a sea of
mud and Auburn was a heavy favorite to win.
But, evidently, the "Thin Red Line" played a great game in the
red mud and held Auburn to a 6-6 tie, thus gaining the name "Crimson
Tide." Zipp Newman, former sports editor of the Birmingham News,
probably popularized the name more than any other writer.
The Elephant Story
The story of how Alabama became associated with the "elephant"
goes back to the 1930 season when Coach Wallace Wade had assembled a great
football team.
On October 8, 1930, sports writer Everett Strupper of the Atlanta Journal
wrote a story of the Alabama-Mississippi game he had witnessed in Tuscaloosa
four days earlier. Strupper wrote, "That Alabama team of 1930 is
a typical Wade machine, powerful, big, tough, fast, aggressive, well-schooled
in fundamentals, and the best blocking team for this early in the season
that I have ever seen. When those big brutes hit you I mean you go down
and stay down, often for an additional two minutes.
"At the end of the quarter, the earth started to tremble, there was
a distant rumble that continued to grow. Some excited fan in the stands
bellowed, 'Hold your horses, the elephants are coming,' and out stamped
this Alabama varsity.
The 1930 team posted an overall 10-0 record. It shut out eight opponents
and allowed only 13 points all season while scoring 217. The "Red
Elephants" rolled over Washington State 24-0 in the Rose Bowl and
were declared National Champions.
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