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The following pages link to 5th transcript block in Roses of Crimson documentary (Q14844):
View (previous 50 | next 50) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)- 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)
- 42 year old George Denny, (Q14119) (← links)
- doctor George Denny was a visionary who saw what sports? (Q14120) (← links)
- Could do for a university. (Q14121) (← links)
- He realized that winning football teams (Q14122) (← links)
- could make people interested in your university and bring the alumni back, (Q14123) (← links)
- get donations from the alumni. (Q14124) (← links)
- An he preceded he was, (Q14125) (← links)
- you know he was pretty much a dictator type guy and I don't mean that in a derogatory way. (Q14126) (← links)
- I mean it is praise for him. (Q14127) (← links)
- Roses of Crimson (Q14890) (← links)
