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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.
In 1993, the school voted a new mascot, a Viking warrior named "Blazer the Warrior;" this mascot was retired the next season due to children being scared of the mascot. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] On January 6, 1996, "Blaze", a friendly green dragon, was introduced at a basketball game.
The name was changed to the "Cayugas" by a student vote in 1937. The origin of the nickname "Bombers" is unclear, but the first known reference was in a December 17, 1938 issue of the Rochester Times-Union article on the basketball team. Some faculty have expressed reservations of the current nickname's martial connotations.
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The post Look: Video Of Alabama’s Mascot Going Viral Tonight appeared first on The Spun. Big Al, the Alabama Crimson Tide mascot, trolled Ole Miss head coach Lane Kiffin on Saturday. Kiffin did ...
Alabama's first football game was played in Birmingham on Friday afternoon, November 11, 1892, at the old Lakeview Park. Alabama defeated a team composed mostly of high schoolers 56-0. 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 ...
Reddy Kilowatt made his first published appearance on March 14, 1926, in an advertisement in The Birmingham News for the Alabama Power Company (APC). The character was the brainchild of the company's 40-year-old commercial manager, Ashton B. Collins, Sr. [3]