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re: Auburn fans: Why did your big rivals refuse to play at AU until 1960?
Posted on 6/17/16 at 1:29 pm to Porter Osborne Jr
Posted on 6/17/16 at 1:29 pm to Porter Osborne Jr
Because it was/is a backwards shite hole that you could only get to by dirt roads.
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Posted on 6/17/16 at 1:31 pm to SummerOfGeorge
I need to spend a night on wiki, starting with the stadiums in AL, and probably ending up reading about the UA-Fairbanks football stadium.
Posted on 6/17/16 at 1:31 pm to Tiger Live2
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I need to spend a night on wiki, starting with the stadiums in AL, and probably ending up reading about the UA-Fairbanks football stadium.
98% of my wasted time in life is due to going down a rabbit hole that starts just like that
Posted on 6/17/16 at 1:32 pm to cajunbama
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Because it was/is a backwards shite hole that you could only get to by dirt roads.
Wait? Is this why Alabama preferred to play most of its games in Birmingham and not Tuscaloosa?
Posted on 6/17/16 at 1:37 pm to SummerOfGeorge
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98% of my wasted time in life is due to going down a rabbit hole that starts just like that
I hear you, considering I've caught myself reading about the Midland, TX airport.
Posted on 6/17/16 at 1:38 pm to Porter Osborne Jr
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Posted on 6/17/16 at 1:46 pm to Evolved Simian
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quote:45 min away from AU It is now. It sure as hell wasn't 75 years ago. Little of Lee County was even paved then. quote:did not want AU to have any home field advantage, and could get away with it. Ah yes, poor, poor AU always getting picked on. Christ, you people whine a lot.
What a dumbass. Look at the Hyw System in the 1960s, remember TN wouldn't play AU in Auburn until 1974. GT until 1970. Hell, TN played Ole Miss in Oxford in 1950. UGA played MSU in Starkville in 1951.
Posted on 6/17/16 at 2:05 pm to cajunbama
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Because it was/is a backwards shite hole that you could only get to by dirt roads.
Kind of like how I picture you driving from Men's room to Men's room during your nightly troll. Something out of True Detective Season One.
Posted on 6/17/16 at 2:33 pm to TouchdownTony
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we didnt see a need to play Auburn. auburn needed us but we could do fine without Auburn. When the state forced us to play we said ok but we wont play in Auburn.
If the Bama administration hadnt become so weak in the 80's we still wouldnt be playing there. Thats why if Auburn moves to the east and we stop the game, which we will, that will be the comeuppance we've been waiting for since the state MADE us play. Auburn was UAB or Troy with a better campus. Florida played there but Florida was worse than Auburn. florida just wanted to be recognized in some form. Tennessee didnt need them either. UT first went there in 78, and had a 42-0 lead at halftime
Where do you people come up with this nonsense?
Posted on 6/17/16 at 2:49 pm to Porter Osborne Jr
Alabama and Auburn didn't play anywhere from 1907 to 1948. So for one of the country's top rivalries, they haven't really played each other much.
The series was discontinued after a 6-6 tie in 1907 -- the only tie in Iron Bowl history -- because the schools could not agree on daily expenses for players, as well as on who would officiate the game.
The hotel allowance for each of the 17 players on both teams in 1907 was $2 per day, including lodging and meals. In January 1908, Auburn, then known as Alabama Polytechnic Institute, proposed $3.50 per day for 22 players for two nights; Alabama offered $3 per day for 20 players for two nights.
Auburn also wanted officials from the North to officiate the game, believing Southern officials were biased toward Alabama.
By late September 1908, the schools agreed to Auburn's demands on daily expenses and on Alabama's suggested compromises on other issues.
But they couldn't settle on a date.
Auburn offered four possibles dates, but two had passed before Alabama replied. By then, it became too late to change dates of other games.
Alabama would not cancel a game against Haskell Institute in late November. Auburn refused to change its rule of prohibiting football games after Thanksgiving.
The series was done - until 1948 that is.
The series was discontinued after a 6-6 tie in 1907 -- the only tie in Iron Bowl history -- because the schools could not agree on daily expenses for players, as well as on who would officiate the game.
The hotel allowance for each of the 17 players on both teams in 1907 was $2 per day, including lodging and meals. In January 1908, Auburn, then known as Alabama Polytechnic Institute, proposed $3.50 per day for 22 players for two nights; Alabama offered $3 per day for 20 players for two nights.
Auburn also wanted officials from the North to officiate the game, believing Southern officials were biased toward Alabama.
By late September 1908, the schools agreed to Auburn's demands on daily expenses and on Alabama's suggested compromises on other issues.
But they couldn't settle on a date.
Auburn offered four possibles dates, but two had passed before Alabama replied. By then, it became too late to change dates of other games.
Alabama would not cancel a game against Haskell Institute in late November. Auburn refused to change its rule of prohibiting football games after Thanksgiving.
The series was done - until 1948 that is.
Posted on 6/17/16 at 2:49 pm to Porter Osborne Jr
It wasn't until 1960 that Auburn finally decided to remove all the residual cow patties around town and campus.
Posted on 6/17/16 at 2:50 pm to Irons Puppet
quote:Damn Irons, you make it sound like Auburn has been shite on for decades.
That is a BS answer. AU played UGA in Columbus, which was 45 min away from AU. The reason was the SEC allow the other teams to dictate terms of where games were played. UT, GT and UGA did not want AU to have any home field advantage, and could get away with it.
Posted on 6/17/16 at 2:58 pm to Irons Puppet
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Look at the Hyw System in the 1960s
75 years ago was 1941, dumbass.
Posted on 6/17/16 at 2:58 pm to Tidemeister
Always cute when folks from Alabama try talking down to other folks from....
Wait for it....
Wait for it....
Alabama.
Wait for it....
Wait for it....
Alabama.
Posted on 6/17/16 at 3:12 pm to TheJones
When did Auburn start pushing to play games against Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, etc at Auburn instead of in Birmingham?
Posted on 6/17/16 at 3:30 pm to Evolved Simian
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quote:Look at the Hyw System in the 1960s 75 years ago was 1941, dumbass.
Good math. That is why I was laughing at you. 1941 was a big difference than 1960 and 1970. Dirt roads my arse, the system was the same in Tuscaloosa as it was in Auburn.
Posted on 6/17/16 at 3:42 pm to SummerOfGeorge
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When did Auburn start pushing to play games against Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, etc at Auburn instead of in Birmingham?
We played UGA in Columbus, GA until 1960. I think we played them at Legion Field at least once in the 60s (1966?)
We played UT at Legion Field until 1974,and then we played them at Legion Field in 1976 - I think that was the last time.
The big push for the IB to be at Auburn started under Dye.
Posted on 6/17/16 at 3:53 pm to BammerDelendaEst
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We played UGA in Columbus, GA until 1960. I think we played them at Legion Field at least once in the 60s (1966?) We played UT at Legion Field until 1974,and then we played them at Legion Field in 1976 - I think that was the last time. The big push for the IB to be at Auburn started under Dye.
I obviously knew about the Iron Bowl, but I didn't know when Auburn started moving all their other games on campus and if that was a fight they had to have or if they just did it.
Posted on 6/17/16 at 3:53 pm to BammerDelendaEst
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and then we played them at Legion Field in 1976 - I think that was the last time
1978.
Posted on 6/17/16 at 4:07 pm to TouchdownTony
Let’s just say what most people think about the University of Alabama. Its football pursuits justify its identity with an uneducated backward white population and a symbolic link to the Lost Cause they hold so dear. Much in the same way as D.W. Griffith’s movie The Birth of a Nation encouraged the worst elements of southern society a hundred years ago; Bama football still encourages a similar backward behavior from a large segment of its fan base today. The Crimson Tide football team is an outlet for their lunatic fringe fans and gives them a venue to be recognized.
Bama fans overestimate the “esteem” of being the last college football factory and unwittingly rob themselves of the very reverence they crave by their boorish and obsessive behavior. They defend the indefensible and deny the undeniable. Their unhealthy emotional stake in Bama football substitutes for their own lack of personal acknowledgement and respect.
The question is: has Chronic Encephalopathy (CTE) not only affected ex-football players but also metaphorically speaking an entire university and its fan base? These other football victims are driven by extreme emotion and delusions to commit unconscionable often violent actions (Harvey Updyke and others). Even Nick Saban contributes to the lunacy by comparing losing a football game to the Pearl Harbor and 911 tragedies when thousands of Americans lost their lives.
Similar to the victims of CTE, the University of Alabama’s misplaced priorities of gold-plated football fluff over economic substance harms the state’s citizens with the false bravado of football. History reveals that the holy crusade of Bama football acts as an impediment to social and economic progress. For instance the University of Alabama administration allows white-only sororities to continue their policy of banning African-American females from membership. Ironic that most of the precocious Bama “student athletes” are African-American but their daughters and sisters can be excluded from university sororities.
It is well known that when a university simply reflects the attitudes of its football fans it is no longer a university in the true meaning of the word. Football has stalled the University of Alabama’s transformation into a modern university with intellectual, aesthetic or humanistic concerns. The reality is that the NCAA would actually do the University of Alabama a favor by handing down the Death Penalty for its football team. Then perhaps finally its faculty, alumni and students might appreciate the scholarship and learning that mark a university with intellectual fiber and integrity.
Until then “roll tide” is the shameful apology for those either naive or without individual self-respect
Bama fans overestimate the “esteem” of being the last college football factory and unwittingly rob themselves of the very reverence they crave by their boorish and obsessive behavior. They defend the indefensible and deny the undeniable. Their unhealthy emotional stake in Bama football substitutes for their own lack of personal acknowledgement and respect.
The question is: has Chronic Encephalopathy (CTE) not only affected ex-football players but also metaphorically speaking an entire university and its fan base? These other football victims are driven by extreme emotion and delusions to commit unconscionable often violent actions (Harvey Updyke and others). Even Nick Saban contributes to the lunacy by comparing losing a football game to the Pearl Harbor and 911 tragedies when thousands of Americans lost their lives.
Similar to the victims of CTE, the University of Alabama’s misplaced priorities of gold-plated football fluff over economic substance harms the state’s citizens with the false bravado of football. History reveals that the holy crusade of Bama football acts as an impediment to social and economic progress. For instance the University of Alabama administration allows white-only sororities to continue their policy of banning African-American females from membership. Ironic that most of the precocious Bama “student athletes” are African-American but their daughters and sisters can be excluded from university sororities.
It is well known that when a university simply reflects the attitudes of its football fans it is no longer a university in the true meaning of the word. Football has stalled the University of Alabama’s transformation into a modern university with intellectual, aesthetic or humanistic concerns. The reality is that the NCAA would actually do the University of Alabama a favor by handing down the Death Penalty for its football team. Then perhaps finally its faculty, alumni and students might appreciate the scholarship and learning that mark a university with intellectual fiber and integrity.
Until then “roll tide” is the shameful apology for those either naive or without individual self-respect
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