I just love College Football

[-ammo-]

The story of Big Al, Bama's mascot.-

http://www.rolltide.com/Cheerleaders/6990.asp

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.

"Coach Wade started his second team that was plenty big and they went right to their knitting scoring a touchdown in the first quarter against one of the best fighting small lines that I have seen. For Ole Miss was truly battling the big boys for every inch of ground.

"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.

"It was the first time that I had seen it and the size of the entire eleven nearly knocked me cold, men that I had seen play last year looking like they had nearly doubled in size."

Strupper and other writers continued to refer to the Alabama linemen as "Red Elephants," the color referring to the crimson jerseys.

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.

Bama picked up the term "Crimson Tide from an announcer in a late 60's game (I believe).  At the beggining of the game, the team entered the field wearing red  and the announcer exclaimed that they looked like a crimson tide.  It stuck.

[Eagler]

they were named after the movie


Go Gators!

[midnight Target]

Gotta hand it to USC though...

They sure handed it to Auburn.

[B17Skull12]

USC?


United
Suckers
College

[Mathman]

Originally posted by B17Skull12
USC?


United
Suckers
College

Actually, I believe it is:

University of the Seldom Considerate

**** off!

[Sandman]

Amateur sports... pffft...

[Raubvogel]

No one has talked about them because they haven't played yet, and therefore no one is aware of their pure awesome devastating power. Beware of the big walking orange! SU!

[Mark Luper]

I have lost my taste for pro football due to drug problems and other abuses, getting the same way about college football too. It is all about the almighty dollar (which I personally would like more of). Seems the game isn't a game anymore, just a bunch of guys out trying to get noticed by the pro's.

I used to be an avid football fan. It seems such a waste of time anymore.

[Holden McGroin]

Originally posted by Sandman_SBM
Amateur sports... pffft...

What does amateur sports have to do with this thread?  

We're talkin' 'bout college football.  

Stay on subject.

[rpm]

I'm not much of a College football fan, but I always make at least 1 TCU game a year. Go Frogs!

[Montezuma]

Originally posted by Fatty
The small schools schedule them for money, the large schools schedule them for practice.

Next week my Aztecs play at Ohio State

[midnight Target]

The schools are probably of similar size.

The offensive tackles are probably not.

[Dune]

If we could only play UTEP 10 more times.  

Needless to say, Makovic hasn't worked out quite as well as we hoped.  

[Montezuma]

Originally posted by midnight Target
The schools are probably of similar size.

The offensive tackles are probably not.

Neither are the co-eds.

[hblair]

Originally posted by Lizard3
You got tix? I'm free and I'll buy the soda's!

I thought I was going. But I had to change my plans. I'll be catching it on the boob tube. Bama will have a better chance of winning if I'm not there.