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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.
The oldest symbol is the Alabama State Bible, from 1853. [1] The most recently designated symbol is the peach, Alabama's state tree fruit, established in 2006. Alabama does not have an official nickname, although "Heart of Dixie" was strongly promoted by the Alabama Chamber of Commerce in the 1940s and 1950s, and put on state license plates. [2 ...
University of Alabama graduates include 15 Rhodes Scholars, 59 Goldwater Scholars, and 16 Truman Scholars. [134] UA graduates have also been named to the USA Today All-USA College Academic Team. [135] [136] The University of Alabama is the alma mater of numerous notable people in politics, sports, business, entertainment, science, art, and ...
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.
Pages in category "Symbols of Alabama" The following 35 pages are in this category, out of 35 total. ... List of Alabama state symbols; A. Alabama (Julia Tutwiler song)
Racer 1— live horse mascot of the Murray State Racers; The Raider – mascot of Colgate University; Raider Red – one of the official mascots of the Texas Tech Red Raiders; Rally – the mascot of the University of Vermont Catamounts. Rally the Red Hawk – the mascot of the Ripon College (Wisconsin) Red Hawks.
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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 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 second (for ...