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| Property / has part: Their opponent, a team made up of high school players from Birmingham. / rank |
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| Property / has part: The students on that first team and nearly every team until World War One were from the elite families of Alabama societies. / rank |
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| Property / has part: Brightest and wealthiest. The first roster included a future speaker of the House of Representatives. / rank |
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| Property / has part: Fullback Will Bankhead and a two term Governor Reserve Bibb Graves. / rank |
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| Property / has part: The most dominant southern team of the 1890s was the Suwannee Tennessee Mountain Tigers in a play for national attention, / rank |
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| Property / has part: Suwannee went on the road and beat five major Southern teams in six days, / rank |
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| Property / has part: but there would be little respect given the Pioneer Southern powerhouses, / rank |
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| Property / has part: teams like Vanderbilt, Georgia Tech or Auburn could win every game but could only gain national respect by going north so north they went. / rank |
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| Property / has part: An ambitious Virginia team arranged the first challenge. / rank |
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| Property / has part: And travel to Princeton. They lossed 116 to nothing. / rank |
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| Property / has part: So Southern teams would go north on what was invariably hailed as northern invasions in the southern newspapers. / rank |
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| Property / has part: They would invariably lose the game and then they would come home to hosannas Ann. / rank |
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| Property / has part: Much praise for defending the honor of the Southland. / rank |
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| Property / has part: The South did develop its share of intense rivalries. / rank |
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| Property / has part: Alabama and Auburn had played nearly every year in a battle for statewide bragging rights, / rank |
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| Property / has part: but the classic turned bitter in 1908. / rank |
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| Property / has part: Incredible bickering over contract issues led to the dissolution of the match up. / rank |
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| Property / has part: The two teams would not play again for 40 years. / rank |
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| Property / has part: In 1912, the first Great Alabama star Bully Vandergraph earned all American honors highly unusual for a southern athlete. / rank |
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| Property / has part: It was also the year Alabama recruited the Virginian, / rank |
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| Property / has part: who, for the next 25 years would have the most influence of anyone on the development of Alabama football. / rank |
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| Property / has part: The recruit was the school's new president. / rank |
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| Property / has part: 42 year old George Denny, / rank |
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| Property / has part: doctor George Denny was a visionary who saw what sports? / rank |
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| Property / has part: Could do for a university. / rank |
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| Property / has part: He realized that winning football teams / rank |
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| Property / has part: could make people interested in your university and bring the alumni back, / rank |
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| Property / has part: get donations from the alumni. / rank |
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| Property / has part: An he preceded he was, / rank |
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| Property / has part: you know he was pretty much a dictator type guy and I don't mean that in a derogatory way. / rank |
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| Property / has part: I mean it is praise for him. / rank |
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