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Roses of Crimson is a UA CPT&R documentary hosted online at the AAPB (transcript generated using MS Azure Video Indexer service V2)

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It wasn't much of a contest.

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The Alabama Crimson's won their first official game 56 to nothing.

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Their opponent, a team made up of high school players from Birmingham.

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The students on that first team and nearly every team until World War One were from the elite families of Alabama societies.

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Brightest and wealthiest. The first roster included a future speaker of the House of Representatives.

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Fullback Will Bankhead and a two term Governor Reserve Bibb Graves.

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The most dominant southern team of the 1890s was the Suwannee Tennessee Mountain Tigers in a play for national attention,

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Suwannee went on the road and beat five major Southern teams in six days,

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but there would be little respect given the Pioneer Southern powerhouses,

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teams like Vanderbilt, Georgia Tech or Auburn could win every game but could only gain national respect by going north so north they went.

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An ambitious Virginia team arranged the first challenge.

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And travel to Princeton. They lossed 116 to nothing.

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So Southern teams would go north on what was invariably hailed as northern invasions in the southern newspapers.

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They would invariably lose the game and then they would come home to hosannas Ann.

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Much praise for defending the honor of the Southland.

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The South did develop its share of intense rivalries.

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Alabama and Auburn had played nearly every year in a battle for statewide bragging rights,

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but the classic turned bitter in 1908.

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Incredible bickering over contract issues led to the dissolution of the match up.

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The two teams would not play again for 40 years.

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In 1912, the first Great Alabama star Bully Vandergraph earned all American honors highly unusual for a southern athlete.

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It was also the year Alabama recruited the Virginian,

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who, for the next 25 years would have the most influence of anyone on the development of Alabama football.

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The recruit was the school's new president.

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42 year old George Denny,

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doctor George Denny was a visionary who saw what sports?

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Could do for a university.

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He realized that winning football teams

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