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• Transitional segment 1 (Q14069) ‎ (← links)
• This program is brought to you in part through a grant from the Bankhead Foundation. (Q14070) ‎ (← links)
• Transitional segment 2 (Q14071) ‎ (← links)
• The best way to describe the 1925 season? (Q14072) ‎ (← links)
• Is to view it in retrospect, (Q14073) ‎ (← links)
• that is, as the first moment in what is going to become such a defining part of sudden life. (Q14074) ‎ (← links)
• If you ask people from the South or people from other sections about the importance of football to the South, (Q14075) ‎ (← links)
• almost all of them will say college football is tremendously important to Southerners. (Q14076) ‎ (← links)
• Therefore, if you start from the premise that football is important in defining who we are as a people, (Q14077) ‎ (← links)
• an our sense of mastery over other regions of the United States and we take. (Q14078) ‎ (← links)
• Inordinate pride in football in the 1950s, (Q14079) ‎ (← links)
• nineteen sixties, 1970s, and after then you have to ask yourself, (Q14080) ‎ (← links)
• when did this begin? What triggered it? (Q14081) ‎ (← links)
• What magical moment was there that defines the South and causes it to begin to think of itself in these terms? (Q14082) ‎ (← links)
• That is our athletic prowess versus your egghead ISM, (Q14083) ‎ (← links)
• and that moment is 1925. (Q14084) ‎ (← links)
• Transitional segment 3 (Q14085) ‎ (← links)
• The 1926 Rose Bowl was without a doubt, (Q14086) ‎ (← links)
• the most important game before or since. (Q14087) ‎ (← links)
• In Southern football history. (Q14088) ‎ (← links)
• Transitional segment 4 (Q14089) ‎ (← links)
• Football is a game of the future. (Q14090) ‎ (← links)
• In college life, players will be forced to live in most ascetic life on a diet of rare beef and pork. (Q14091) ‎ (← links)
• For additional courage and fortitude, (Q14092) ‎ (← links)
• build little Alabama Captain 1892. (Q14093) ‎ (← links)
• Transitional segment 5 (Q14094) ‎ (← links)
• It wasn't much of a contest. (Q14095) ‎ (← links)
• The Alabama Crimson's won their first official game 56 to nothing. (Q14096) ‎ (← links)
• Their opponent, a team made up of high school players from Birmingham. (Q14097) ‎ (← links)
• The students on that first team and nearly every team until World War One were from the elite families of Alabama societies. (Q14098) ‎ (← links)
• Brightest and wealthiest. The first roster included a future speaker of the House of Representatives. (Q14099) ‎ (← links)
• Fullback Will Bankhead and a two term Governor Reserve Bibb Graves. (Q14100) ‎ (← links)
• The most dominant southern team of the 1890s was the Suwannee Tennessee Mountain Tigers in a play for national attention, (Q14101) ‎ (← links)
• Suwannee went on the road and beat five major Southern teams in six days, (Q14102) ‎ (← links)
• but there would be little respect given the Pioneer Southern powerhouses, (Q14103) ‎ (← links)
• teams like Vanderbilt, Georgia Tech or Auburn could win every game but could only gain national respect by going north so north they went. (Q14104) ‎ (← links)
• An ambitious Virginia team arranged the first challenge. (Q14105) ‎ (← links)
• And travel to Princeton. They lossed 116 to nothing. (Q14106) ‎ (← links)
• So Southern teams would go north on what was invariably hailed as northern invasions in the southern newspapers. (Q14107) ‎ (← links)
• They would invariably lose the game and then they would come home to hosannas Ann. (Q14108) ‎ (← links)
• Much praise for defending the honor of the Southland. (Q14109) ‎ (← links)
• The South did develop its share of intense rivalries. (Q14110) ‎ (← links)
• Alabama and Auburn had played nearly every year in a battle for statewide bragging rights, (Q14111) ‎ (← links)
• but the classic turned bitter in 1908. (Q14112) ‎ (← links)
• Incredible bickering over contract issues led to the dissolution of the match up. (Q14113) ‎ (← links)
• The two teams would not play again for 40 years. (Q14114) ‎ (← links)
• In 1912, the first Great Alabama star Bully Vandergraph earned all American honors highly unusual for a southern athlete. (Q14115) ‎ (← links)
• It was also the year Alabama recruited the Virginian, (Q14116) ‎ (← links)
• who, for the next 25 years would have the most influence of anyone on the development of Alabama football. (Q14117) ‎ (← links)
• The recruit was the school's new president. (Q14118) ‎ (← links)

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