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Please Explain Bama's Elephant
Posted on 1/16/15 at 9:32 am
Posted on 1/16/15 at 9:32 am
Please?
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Posted on 1/16/15 at 9:34 am to Wicked Pissah
Posted on 1/16/15 at 9:34 am to Wicked Pissah
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The Elephant Story
Elephant
The story of how Alabama became associated with the "elephant" goes back to the 1930 season when Coach Wallace Wade had assembled a great football team.
On October 8, 1930, sports writer Everett Strupper of the Atlanta Journal wrote a story of the Alabama-Mississippi game he had witnessed in Tuscaloosa four days earlier. Strupper wrote, "That Alabama team of 1930 is a typical Wade machine, powerful, big, tough, fast, aggressive, well-schooled in fundamentals, and the best blocking team for this early in the season that I have ever seen. When those big brutes hit you I mean you go down and stay down, often for an additional two minutes.
"Coach Wade started his second team that was plenty big and they went right to their knitting scoring a touchdown in the first quarter against one of the best fighting small lines that I have seen. For Ole Miss was truly battling the big boys for every inch of ground.
"At the end of the quarter, the earth started to tremble, there was a distant rumble that continued to grow. Some excited fan in the stands bellowed, 'Hold your horses, the elephants are coming,' and out stamped this Alabama varsity.
"It was the first time that I had seen it and the size of the entire eleven nearly knocked me cold, men that I had seen play last year looking like they had nearly doubled in size."
Strupper and other writers continued to refer to the Alabama linemen as "Red Elephants," the color referring to the crimson jerseys.
The 1930 team posted an overall 10-0 record. It shut out eight opponents and allowed only 13 points all season while scoring 217. The "Red Elephants" rolled over Washington State 24-0 in the Rose Bowl and were declared National Champions.
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This post was edited on 1/16/15 at 9:35 am
Posted on 1/16/15 at 9:34 am to Wicked Pissah
I think a sportswriter back in the day referred to their line as "red elephants"
Posted on 1/16/15 at 9:34 am to Wicked Pissah
Don't be lazy!
Posted on 1/16/15 at 9:34 am to Wicked Pissah
No
Posted on 1/16/15 at 9:35 am to Wicked Pissah
Reminds Alabama men of their wives. So it's like yeah...there is football...but really the most important thing is family. Then they take a swig of Jack and punch her anyway. But that elephant definitely gave her a second to run away.
This post was edited on 1/16/15 at 9:35 am
Posted on 1/16/15 at 9:35 am to Wicked Pissah
Posted on 1/16/15 at 9:35 am to Wicked Pissah
Here is a good LINK
Posted on 1/16/15 at 9:35 am to Wicked Pissah
Commonly referred to as a mascot. It isn't really an elephant walking on two feet. It is a costume with a human inside making it move. Hth.
This post was edited on 1/16/15 at 9:36 am
Posted on 1/16/15 at 9:35 am to Eric Nies Grind Time
Awful attempt at humor.
Posted on 1/16/15 at 9:38 am to TT9
Sorry...maybe I will use one of your gems.
Maybe I can reach your level after I stick an ice pick up my nose.
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The Vols are a poor so that's why they've sucked of
late.
Maybe I can reach your level after I stick an ice pick up my nose.
Posted on 1/16/15 at 9:38 am to RollDatRoll
I bet you the Alabama players that were so "huge" were probably 5'11" and the biggest was 210. 
People were a lot smaller back then.
I recall watching (ESPN Classic) I think it was an early 80's sugar bowl with Bama vs Arkansas (SWC). Keith Jackson was the announcer and he announced the size of the starting bama line and I recall the starting right guard weighing 245.
Who'da thunk guys like Cam Newton and Cardale Jones would be quarterbacks now. And good ones.
People were a lot smaller back then. I recall watching (ESPN Classic) I think it was an early 80's sugar bowl with Bama vs Arkansas (SWC). Keith Jackson was the announcer and he announced the size of the starting bama line and I recall the starting right guard weighing 245.
Who'da thunk guys like Cam Newton and Cardale Jones would be quarterbacks now. And good ones.
This post was edited on 1/16/15 at 9:40 am
Posted on 1/16/15 at 9:38 am to TT9
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Awful attempt at humor.
It wasn't "awful"
Posted on 1/16/15 at 9:40 am to guschamp84
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Who'da thunk guys like Cam Newton and Cardale Jones would be quarterbacks now.
You mean black people?
Posted on 1/16/15 at 9:41 am to Eric Nies Grind Time
Well their atathletic department is in the hole with no reserve funds.
You're just spouting out stereotypes about all of the south, not just Alabama.
Again, poor attempt at humor.
You're just spouting out stereotypes about all of the south, not just Alabama.
Again, poor attempt at humor.
Posted on 1/16/15 at 9:45 am to Eric Nies Grind Time
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Eric Nies Grind Time
Critically unfunny.
Posted on 1/16/15 at 9:46 am to cyde
You wouldn't recognize humor if it took a dump on your chest.
Posted on 1/16/15 at 9:47 am to Eric Nies Grind Time
Frick yourself nice and good this morning then come back and see if you can be worth a shite as a poster
Posted on 1/16/15 at 9:47 am to Eric Nies Grind Time
Now there's a zinger. You really got him.
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