Dixie's Football Pride

By Athlon Sports

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson
• Release date: Aug 5, 2003
• ISBN: 9781418571061

Book preview

dixie’s football

pride

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THE MOST SPECTACULAR SIGHTS

& SOUNDS OF ALABAMA FOOTBALL

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dixie’s

football pride

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THE MOST SPECTACULAR SIGHTS

& SOUNDS OF ALABAMA FOOT BALL

ATHLON® SPORTS™

RUTLEDGE HILL PRESS™

NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE

A DIVISION OF THOMAS NELSON PUBLISHERS, INC.

WWW.THOMASNELSON.COM

COPYRIGHT © 2003 BY ATHLON® SPORTS™

All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other—except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher.

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

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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

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For 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.

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Decades 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,