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This year marks the 100th anniversary of the 1919 Alabama Crimson Tide football team
Posted on 5/27/19 at 11:40 am
Posted on 5/27/19 at 11:40 am
Arguably one of the most important in school history.
Prior to World War I, Alabama wasn't really known as a college football powerhouse. We had had some good teams and some good players prior to 1919, but we hadn't really been established as a football school.
George H. Denny's hiring of Xen Scott changed all that.
Scott was our first truly solid football coach and got Alabama's reputation for pluck and grit established. The 1919 Alabama Crimson Tide football team went 8-1, its only loss being a 16-12 heartbreaker against Vanderbilt in Nashville. The Commodores were the class of the South in those days and that loss kept us from winning the SIAA title (the conference we were part of in those early days).
Nevertheless, the 1919 team got the ball rolling in Tuscaloosa. Xen Scott would go 29-9-3 in his four seasons at Alabama. Illness would eventually force him to resign at the end of the 1922 season. Denny would wind up replacing him with some guy named Wallace Wade. The rest, as they say, is history.
The 1919 Alabama Crimson Tide Football Team (Xen Scott is at the top left)
Prior to World War I, Alabama wasn't really known as a college football powerhouse. We had had some good teams and some good players prior to 1919, but we hadn't really been established as a football school.
George H. Denny's hiring of Xen Scott changed all that.
Scott was our first truly solid football coach and got Alabama's reputation for pluck and grit established. The 1919 Alabama Crimson Tide football team went 8-1, its only loss being a 16-12 heartbreaker against Vanderbilt in Nashville. The Commodores were the class of the South in those days and that loss kept us from winning the SIAA title (the conference we were part of in those early days).
Nevertheless, the 1919 team got the ball rolling in Tuscaloosa. Xen Scott would go 29-9-3 in his four seasons at Alabama. Illness would eventually force him to resign at the end of the 1922 season. Denny would wind up replacing him with some guy named Wallace Wade. The rest, as they say, is history.
The 1919 Alabama Crimson Tide Football Team (Xen Scott is at the top left)
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Posted on 5/27/19 at 12:16 pm to RollTide1987
Xen Scott---another great coach from Ohio, the cradle of coaching.
Posted on 5/27/19 at 7:40 pm to RollTide1987
Only 20 players on the team? Must have been coming off probation.
Posted on 5/29/19 at 9:19 am to East Coast Band
Back then, you played every down, both ways and helped bring the equipment on and of the field during practices and games.Posted on 6/5/19 at 5:29 pm to RollTide1987
They shut out 7 teams that year, including Ole Miss, LSU, & Georgia. The only loss was to Vandy, 12-16.
Joe Sewell was a HB on that team. He went on to have a pro baseball career where he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame and became a coach for Alabama baseball.
Joe Sewell was a HB on that team. He went on to have a pro baseball career where he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame and became a coach for Alabama baseball.
Posted on 6/6/19 at 8:41 am to jatebe
I believe he's #18.
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