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On October 8, 1930, a sportswriter for the Atlanta Journal, Everett Strupper, wrote about the previous weekend's Alabama-Ole Miss football game.He wrote, "That Alabama team of 1930 is a typical [Coach Wallace] 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.
That Saturday, November 12, Alabama played the Birmingham Athletic Club, losing 5-4 when Ross, of B.A.C., kicked a 65-yard field goal. This field goal was a collegiate record at the time. In 1896 the university's board of trustees passed a rule forbidding athletic teams from traveling off-campus.
University of Alabama graduates include 15 Rhodes Scholars, 59 Goldwater Scholars, and 16 Truman Scholars. [135] UA graduates have also been named to the USA Today All-USA College Academic Team. [136] [137] The University of Alabama is the alma mater of numerous notable people in politics, sports, business, entertainment, science, art, and ...
Dr. Dorothy Worden-Chambers attributes 'roll tide' as a "cultural keyword... emblematic of the culture of the [University of Alabama]." [5] The CSS Alabama was a very successful Commerce Raider during the Civil War. Many songs were written about it, but one of the more popular songs was Roll, Alabama, Roll - which was a popular English sea ...
The official description, in heraldic language, is laid out in the Code of Alabama, Section 1-2-2: [2]. Arms: quarterly, the first azure three fleur de lis or (for France); second quarterly first and fourth gules a tower tripple [sic] towered or, second and third argent a lion rampant gules (for Spain); third azure a saltire argent and gules over all a cross of the last fimbriated of the ...
The University of Alabama: A Guide to the Campus. Tuscaloosa (Ala.): The University of Alabama Press, 1988. ISBN 0-817-30395-2; Mellown, Robert Oliver. The University of Alabama: A Guide to the Campus and Its Architecture. Tuscaloosa (Ala.): The University of Alabama Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-8173-5680-4; Reed, Delbert. All of Us Fought the War ...
The three University of Alabama System campuses on Tuesday shuttered diversity, equity and inclusion offices— and opened new offices — to comply with a new Republican-backed law attempting to ...
The Seal of Alabama from 1868 until 1939. "Here We Rest" served as the official state motto during that time. The state's first seal of 1819, replaced by this one, was readopted as the official seal in 1939. It does not contain a motto. The modern Alabama motto was added to the current coat of arms when it was created in 1923.