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re: Random stat/fact about your schools athletic programs that people might not know
Posted on 1/31/17 at 4:22 pm to Triple Daves
Posted on 1/31/17 at 4:22 pm to Triple Daves
Auburn actually has 11 National Championships in Football but our humbleness keeps us from sharing our success.
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Posted on 1/31/17 at 4:23 pm to Triple Daves
Auburn never offered Cam Newton or his father money to attend Auburn. That was in fact Mississippi State.
Posted on 1/31/17 at 4:27 pm to Triple Daves
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Random stat/fact about your schools athletic programs that people might not know
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Posted on 1/31/17 at 4:29 pm to RockyMtnTigerWDE
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Auburn actually has 11 National Championships in Football but our humbleness keeps us from sharing our success.
War Daym Christian
Posted on 1/31/17 at 4:32 pm to VFL1800FPD
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Tennessee is the only school to have invented a Championship and then proceeded to lose it re: Champions of Life
Not gonna lie. I chuckled.
Posted on 1/31/17 at 4:39 pm to fibonaccisquared
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Originally LSU official colors were blue and white. Not far from their current color scheme. However, there are a few stories surrounding how LSU went from blue and white to Purple & Gold. It is believed that the purple and gold were first worn by an LSU team in the spring of 1893 when the LSU baseball squad beat Tulane in the first intercollegiate contest played in any sport by Louisiana State University. Team captain E.B. Young reportedly hand-picked those colors for the LSU squad. In another story, Ruffin G. Pleasant, LSU quarterback, future band director and future Louisiana governor, along with football coach Charles E. coates changed LSU’s official school colors. It is said that later in 1893, the first football game was played. On November 25, 1893, football coach/chemistry professor Dr. Charles Coates and some of his players went and purchased ribbon to adorn their gray jerseys as they prepared to play the first LSU football game. Stores were stocking ribbons in the colors of Mardi Gras—purple, gold and green—for the coming Carnival season. However, none of the green had yet arrived at Reymond’s Store at the corner of Third and Main streets in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Coates and quarterback Ruffin Pleasant bought up all of the purple and gold stock and made it into rosettes and badges.
Which you can thank Alabama for since it was a group of Mobilians that introduced Mardi Gras to New Orleans
Posted on 1/31/17 at 4:40 pm to StopRobot
Alabama is the only SEC school to have won an SEC Championship in football in every decade since the conference was founded.* 2009 was the closest that streak came to ending.
*could also include the Southern Conference in that
*could also include the Southern Conference in that
Posted on 1/31/17 at 4:49 pm to StopRobot
Mobilians
Is that a real word or name for people from Mobile? Learned something new today
Is that a real word or name for people from Mobile? Learned something new today
Posted on 1/31/17 at 4:52 pm to StopRobot
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Which you can thank Alabama for since it was a group of Mobilians that introduced Mardi Gras to New Orleans
Oh no now you done done it
Posted on 1/31/17 at 10:38 pm to RockyMtnTigerWDE
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Auburn actually has 11 National Championships in Football but our humbleness keeps us from sharing our success.
Not sure where you get 11 from but the records book only lists 5.
Posted on 1/31/17 at 11:40 pm to Triple Daves
Auburn is the only school to have 4 players at one position taken in the same draft.
1987 - RB's
Brent Fullwood RD 1 Pick 4
Tommie Agee RD 5 Pick 119
Bo Jackson RD 7 Pick 183 ( Bo was originally the #1 pick in 86 draft but refused to play for Tampa Bay after they told him pick football or baseball and they tricked him into losing his eligibility for his senior season of baseball)
Tim Jessie RD 11 Pick 305
1987 - RB's
Brent Fullwood RD 1 Pick 4
Tommie Agee RD 5 Pick 119
Bo Jackson RD 7 Pick 183 ( Bo was originally the #1 pick in 86 draft but refused to play for Tampa Bay after they told him pick football or baseball and they tricked him into losing his eligibility for his senior season of baseball)
Tim Jessie RD 11 Pick 305
Posted on 1/31/17 at 11:51 pm to DannyB
University of Arkansas was originally the Cardinals. That is why our colors are cardinal & white. We changed to the Razorbacks after a speech by the head coach following our Super Bowl win vs LSU in 1909.
We integrated in 1948.
We've been co-ed since our founding in 1871.
Dixie used to be our secondary fight song, but was removed the week of the The Big Shootout vs Texas in 1969.
We used to be really good at basketball.
We are pretty good at track, but used to be dominant.
We integrated in 1948.
We've been co-ed since our founding in 1871.
Dixie used to be our secondary fight song, but was removed the week of the The Big Shootout vs Texas in 1969.
We used to be really good at basketball.
We are pretty good at track, but used to be dominant.
This post was edited on 1/31/17 at 11:54 pm
Posted on 2/1/17 at 12:12 am to CBandits82
Penn State's original colors were Black and pink, but the jerseys faded over the summer from black and pink to navy blue and (almost) white. It didn't change after that, obviously
Posted on 2/1/17 at 7:28 am to Triple Daves
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the games forfeited don't count as losses,
The ones in '93 do.
Posted on 2/1/17 at 7:45 am to Triple Daves
One of our original mascots was the Flood. In hindsight, remaining as "the Flood" rather than changing to the Rebels probably would have caused much less heartache down the line.
We have a winning record against Florida, which is more than LSU and Tennessee can say.
Bo Wallace started 39 consecutive games for Hugh Freeze's Ole Miss Rebels from 2012 - 2014. In those 39 games, he turned the ball over 58 times.
We have a winning record against Florida, which is more than LSU and Tennessee can say.
Bo Wallace started 39 consecutive games for Hugh Freeze's Ole Miss Rebels from 2012 - 2014. In those 39 games, he turned the ball over 58 times.
Posted on 2/1/17 at 8:05 am to DannyB
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Auburn is the only school to have 4 players at one position taken in the same draft.
1987 - RB's
Brent Fullwood RD 1 Pick 4
Tommie Agee RD 5 Pick 119
Bo Jackson RD 7 Pick 183 ( Bo was originally the #1 pick in 86 draft but refused to play for Tampa Bay after they told him pick football or baseball and they tricked him into losing his eligibility for his senior season of baseball)
Tim Jessie RD 11 Pick 305
I could see that happening again but not ever at RB again
Posted on 2/1/17 at 8:09 am to tilco
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Auburn never offered Cam Newton or his father money to attend Auburn.
Posted on 2/1/17 at 8:14 am to VFL1800FPD
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Tennessee is the only school to have invented a Championship and then proceeded to lose it re: Champions of Life
Posted on 2/1/17 at 10:06 am to Pygthagorean Theorem
John Heisman was paid $500.00 a year to coach at Auburn in 1895.
Posted on 2/1/17 at 10:15 am to Triple Daves
Vandy men's basketball has made a 3 pt shot in every game they've played since the implementation of the 3 pt line in 1986.
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