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This year marks the 100th anniversary of Alabama Football's first conference championship
Posted on 2/6/24 at 8:30 am
Posted on 2/6/24 at 8:30 am
The 1924 Alabama Crimson Tide football team was led by second-year head coach Wallace Wade and captained by future College Football Hall of Famer Pooley Hubert, one of the all-time great QBs and leaders in Alabama Football history. The 1924 version of the Tide finished 5-0 in Southern Conference play, clinching the Champ Pickens trophy, and 8-1 overall. Their only blemish was a baffling 17-0 loss to Centre College in the second-to-last game of the season.
1924 Alabama Crimson Tide football schedule
vs. Union (W) 55-0
@ Furman (W) 20-0
vs. Mississippi College (W) 51-0
vs. Sewanee (W) 14-0
@ Georgia Tech (W) 14-0
vs. Ole Miss (W) 61-0
vs. Kentucky (W) 42-7
vs. Centre (L) 0-17
vs. Georgia (W) 33-0
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Posted on 2/6/24 at 1:12 pm to RollTide1987
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Their only blemish was a baffling 17-0 loss to Centre College in the second-to-last game of the season.
Yeah, WTF? I wasn't even sure where Centre College was. I was thinking...Centre, Alabama?
Posted on 2/6/24 at 2:11 pm to RECConspiracy
It’s in Kentucky.
Posted on 2/6/24 at 2:20 pm to Gj4Bama
Think they were the “Praying Colonels”?
Also think their best player was named Bo McMillan and he was obviously a badass.
Also think their best player was named Bo McMillan and he was obviously a badass.
Posted on 2/6/24 at 2:30 pm to footswitch
Yes sir, the Praying Colonels! Thry knew how to play some football back in the day for sure.
Posted on 2/6/24 at 5:20 pm to RollTide1987
Wow. Hard to wrap my head around the football program being that successful for so long.
Posted on 2/6/24 at 5:58 pm to imjustafatkid
Wonder what the circumstances were that Wallace Wade left Alabama for Duke.
Posted on 2/6/24 at 8:26 pm to RollTide1987
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vs. Centre (L) 0-17
There would be a lot of "Horsefeathers!" and "Gee Golly's" on the 1920s version of the Bama Board.
Posted on 2/7/24 at 4:38 am to footswitch
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Think they were the “Praying Colonels”?
Also think their best player was named Bo McMillan and he was obviously a badass.
McMillan was an All-American QB at Centre…but he was gone by 1924. Centre and McMillan were best known for their historic 6-0 upset of Harvard (a football powerhouse back then) three years earlier…
This post was edited on 2/7/24 at 4:39 am
Posted on 2/7/24 at 7:14 am to SoFla Tideroller
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Wonder what the circumstances were that Wallace Wade left Alabama for Duke.
The documentary on the 1925 Rose Bowl explains that by saying Wade felt like Denny was micromanaging him.
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