Dixie's Football Pride
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True Crimson Tide fans can tell you where they were when championships were won, heartbreakers were lost, records were broken, and heroes were made. Dixie's Football Pride is a gift book for true University of Alabama fans, celebrating the history, the pageantry, and the drama of Alabama Football in both print and on an audio CD that Crimson Tide fans will listen to over and over.
Dixie's Football Pride is a tribute to a football program that has received national acclaim and a loyalty within its region that few schools achieve.
The audio CD contains the school's fight song and classic calls of the most memorable plays in University of Alabama football history.
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Dixie's Football Pride - Athlon Sports
dixie’s football
pride
MI3913_UA_Book_final_0001_001THE MOST SPECTACULAR SIGHTS
& SOUNDS OF ALABAMA FOOTBALL
MI3913_UA_Book_final_0002_001dixie’s
football pride
MI3913_UA_Book_final_0003_001THE MOST SPECTACULAR SIGHTS
& SOUNDS OF ALABAMA FOOT BALL
ATHLON® SPORTS™
RUTLEDGE HILL PRESS™
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE
A DIVISION OF THOMAS NELSON PUBLISHERS, INC.
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COPYRIGHT © 2003 BY ATHLON® SPORTS™
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Published by Rutledge Hill Press, a Division of Thomas Nelson, Inc., P.O. Box 141000, Nashville, Tennessee, 37214.
1-4016-0100-6
Printed in the United States of America
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table of contents
MI3913_UA_Book_final_0005_001ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
TRADITIONS AND PAGEANTRY
FIGHT SONG (YEA ALABAMA
)
ALMA MATER
GREAT COACHES
GREAT RIVALRIES
THE CHAMPIONSHIPS
GREAT PLAYERS
TALKIN’ BAMA FOOTBALL
BOWL GAME TRADITION
acknowledgments
Athlon Sports would like to thank Rutledge Hill Press, Kevin Daniels, the College Football Hall of Fame, the University of Alabama Sports Information office, the Million Dollar Band, and above all the Bama fans, whose passionate devotion to their Crimson Tide defines what college football is all about.
introduction
MI3913_UA_Book_final_0007_001For many of us, any discussion of Southern football starts and ends with the Alabama Crimson Tide.
You may be surprised to learn, then, that the Alabama fight song mentions the Rose Bowl. Don’t be. It’s only fitting that there’s a link between the Granddaddy of all Bowl Games and the Gold Standard of all college football programs.
You see, Alabama’s rich football tradition harkens back to a time when the Rose Bowl invited the best teams in the land, regardless of conference affiliation. It should be no shock that Alabama fell in that category more than once during college football’s formative years.
MI3913_UA_Book_final_0007_002MI3913_UA_Book_final_0008_001Decades have passed, but one thing hasn’t changed: Alabama Crimson Tide football is a tradition, a legacy of greatness, a virtual way of life. From the days of Wallace Wade and Frank Thomas, to the epic era of Bear Bryant, to the 1992 national championship,