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Pages in category "Alabama Crimson Tide football players" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 667 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Ronnie Coleman, football player, Alabama A&M and NFL's Houston Oilers ; Marva Collins, educator (Monroeville) Commodores, funk/soul band (Tuskegee, Alabama) Fred Cone, football player for Clemson and NFL's Green Bay Packers, Dallas Cowboys ; Bull Connor, politician who opposed the activities of the Civil Rights Movement
Fewer than 70 athletes are known to have played in both Major League Baseball (MLB) [a] and the National Football League (NFL). This includes two Heisman Trophy winners (Vic Janowicz and Bo Jackson) [1] and seven members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (Red Badgro, [2] Paddy Driscoll, [3] George Halas, [4] Ernie Nevers, [5] Ace Parker, [6] Jim Thorpe, [7] and Deion Sanders). [8]
Baseball players from Alabama by populated place (6 C) Pages in category "Baseball players from Alabama" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 301 total.
This list consists of players who have appeared in Major League Baseball. Note that the list also includes players who appeared in the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players, which is not universally considered a major league. The list is broken down into a page of each letter to reduce the size.
Alabama has had 28 head coaches since organized football began in 1892. Adopting the nickname "Crimson Tide" after the 1907 season, 12 coaches have led the Crimson Tide in postseason bowl games: Wallace Wade, Frank Thomas, Harold D. "Red" Drew, Bear Bryant, Ray Perkins, Bill Curry, Gene Stallings, Mike DuBose, Dennis Franchione, Mike Shula, Joe Kines, and Nick Saban. [7]
This means that only Frank Thomas, of Auburn, is the only SEC player to make the Baseball HOF. For 12 of the last 13 seasons Alabama has ranked in the top 10 nationally in attendance. In 2016 the team moved into the newly renovated Sewell-Thomas Stadium, a $42 million renovation making The Joe look like a totally new ball park.
In eight years as Alabama's head football coach, Drew compiled a 51–28–7 record. [40] He was inducted into the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame in 1970. [36] [41] Alabama had grown into a major football power and enjoyed consistent success over the past three decades. However, Whitworth would lead the Crimson Tide to its worst three-year stretch ...