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Great article on early UA football and the legendary Johnnie Mack Brown.
1 posted on 02/20/2007 7:02:30 PM PST by BnBlFlag
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Johnny Mack Brown was my favorite screen cowboy when little. I had no idea he was a football hero before that.


2 posted on 02/20/2007 7:09:05 PM PST by expatpat
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It is an outstanding documentary.


3 posted on 02/20/2007 7:10:53 PM PST by panzer_grey
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Roll Tide!..................Forever


4 posted on 02/20/2007 7:11:11 PM PST by NeverForgetBataan
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20-19 final score


5 posted on 02/20/2007 7:14:53 PM PST by packrat35 (Beware the Big Government Republicans!)
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What made the South today's powerhouse economically was refrigerated air conditoning.


7 posted on 02/20/2007 7:26:31 PM PST by gcruse (http://garycruse.blogspot.com/)
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Roll Tide bump for later read. By the way, any illiterate Auburn fans who need this read to them Public Radio-style, let me know.


8 posted on 02/20/2007 7:29:54 PM PST by jra
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I just finished a biography on Wallace Wade. A greater man and coach you could hardly find. I wish my Blue Devils were as serious about football as they used to be.


9 posted on 02/20/2007 7:30:17 PM PST by GoDuke
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Great as this game was, that was nothing compared to one of the biggest upsets in college football history, when Columbia beat Stanford 7-0 on January 1, 1934! We're talking a team of de facto scrubs beating a decently established powerhouse in college football at the time....
10 posted on 02/20/2007 7:33:41 PM PST by RayChuang88
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Need some dialog here. PING.


11 posted on 02/20/2007 7:33:43 PM PST by groanup (Limited government is the answer. What's the question?)
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Would loved to have seen that game. I never knew JMB was a 'Bama football player. Must have seen every movie he ever made from the old time cowboy movies they used to show everyday after school. Had about five plots and made a thousand movies from them, lol. The same chase scenes in all the movies, too.


12 posted on 02/20/2007 7:34:58 PM PST by justshutupandtakeit (Defeat Hillary's V'assed Left Wing Conspiracy)
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I'm not the football historian but I thought it was in the 1920's when Georgia Tech beat the team from Tennesse 221 to nothing because John Heisman was fed up with the national rankings. If Ga Tech was concerned about national rankings how does that jibe with this article? Believe me, I don't know, just wondering.


13 posted on 02/20/2007 7:37:00 PM PST by groanup (Limited government is the answer. What's the question?)
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Well, the Alabama v Penn State game in which Barry Krause stopped the ball carrier on fourth and goal from the one to win the game sticks in this old head as the greatest piece of Alabama football history.


15 posted on 02/20/2007 7:37:37 PM PST by MHGinTN (If you've had life support. Promote life support for others.)
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Better Bama game here:

http://www.amazon.com/Turning-Tide-Game-Changed-South/dp/1931722943


16 posted on 02/20/2007 7:37:58 PM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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More dreck from the apologists who thought winning was synonymous with annihilation.


19 posted on 02/20/2007 7:52:17 PM PST by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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"H.L. Mencken at the Baltimore Sun was writing very critical and satiric editorials about the brain cavity size of the typical Southerner and it was not at all uplifting or complementary to the South,"

I wasn't alive at the time, but Mencken seems like he was the Michael Moore/Bill Maher/John Stewart of his era...

IOW, a complete leftist jerk.

20 posted on 02/20/2007 7:55:29 PM PST by GOP_Raider (Hated by all NFL fans since 1990.)
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Dixie Ping

thanks groanup!

34 posted on 02/21/2007 7:51:17 AM PST by stainlessbanner
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imVho, AUBURN is "THE UNIVERSITY of ALABAMA".

WAR EAGLE!

nonetheless, this was a GREAT win over the huskies from DAMNyankeeland.

free dixie,sw

35 posted on 02/21/2007 7:58:01 AM PST by stand watie ("Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God." - T. Jefferson, 1804)
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You can look at the 1926 Rose Bowl as the most significant event in Southern football history," said Andrew Doyle, a history professor at Winthrop University who has written about the sport.

Sorry, Sam "Bam" Cunningham USC tail back tearing up the Tide on National TV was much more significant.

38 posted on 02/21/2007 8:21:39 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine's brother (Jane Fonda was type cast in the movie "Klute")
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Coach Wallace Wade was named for the Scottish hero William Wallace.

BTW, if any of you folks are interested in DVD's of old Alabama games, highlights, and specials, a fellow from Dothan who I met through eBay has a website that sells and trades them. If you're not an Alabama fan, they make good gifts for customers who are. eBay has a lot of old Auburn games as well.

My Dad graduated a from API(Auburn) in '49 and my wife and I graduated from The University in '82 and '83. We don't talk football much lately.

I am in no way associated with the site.

http://www.bear315win.com/


39 posted on 02/21/2007 8:41:23 AM PST by Crawdad (I cried because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no class.)
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ROLL TIDE!! What else is there to say?


41 posted on 02/21/2007 12:05:26 PM PST by chesley ("Socialism" - compassion for those that don't have any.)
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