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Posted on 7/25/18 at 2:36 pm to
Posted by Allyn McKeen
Key West, FL
Member since Jun 2012
4277 posts
Posted on 7/25/18 at 2:36 pm to
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the Mizzou band played Dixie after the team scored a touchdown.


I went to a Mizzou game when I was a kid in the 60's. A guy about 3 rows down from me had a big black and gold rebel flag.
Posted by kywildcatfanone
Wildcat Country!
Member since Oct 2012
119118 posts
Posted on 7/25/18 at 2:37 pm to
Kentucky had checkerboard end zones before any other SEC school.

Stoll Field 1914
Posted by kywildcatfanone
Wildcat Country!
Member since Oct 2012
119118 posts
Posted on 7/25/18 at 2:38 pm to
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Mississippi State has zero championships. In anything. Ever.


I thought you guys were a baseball school?
Posted by GoCrazyAuburn
Member since Feb 2010
34884 posts
Posted on 7/25/18 at 2:39 pm to
Auburn was granted permission to not participate in football in 2012 and resume the next season. Only team I know of to ever get such an agreement in the SEC.
This post was edited on 7/25/18 at 2:41 pm
Posted by crispyUGA
Upstate SC
Member since Feb 2011
15919 posts
Posted on 7/25/18 at 2:43 pm to
In the 1892 UGA/Auburn game, UGA had no official nickname but they used a Goat, named Sir William, as their mascot. Apparently Auburn also brought a mascot, a black man named “Dabble”.
Posted by theGarnetWay
Washington, D.C.
Member since Mar 2010
25862 posts
Posted on 7/25/18 at 2:46 pm to
2-0? Hell, we’re 7-2 vs Ohio St, Michigan, Texas, and So Cal combined.
Posted by coachcrisp
pensacola, fl
Member since Jun 2012
30599 posts
Posted on 7/25/18 at 2:46 pm to
"Despite a lifetime of philanthropic giving to a variety of causes, James M. Fail never felt the desire to have anything actually named in his honor. "After all," he says, "who would want anything with the name 'Fail' on it?"

In ceremonies Monday morning at Bryant-Denny Stadium, his question was finally answered. Made possible by Fail's generous gift to the Crimson Tide Foundation, the Visitors' Locker Room was officially named "The Fail Room."
Posted by Allyn McKeen
Key West, FL
Member since Jun 2012
4277 posts
Posted on 7/25/18 at 2:48 pm to
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I thought you guys were a baseball school?



You thought wrong. We are a javelin school. Finished 1-2 in the NCAA this year.
This post was edited on 7/25/18 at 2:49 pm
Posted by geauxtigahs87
Louisiana
Member since Dec 2008
26265 posts
Posted on 7/25/18 at 2:51 pm to
While at LSU, Les Miles was 1-34 in games he lost
Posted by Dday63
Member since Sep 2014
2297 posts
Posted on 7/25/18 at 2:57 pm to
Mississippi State has had a live bulldog mascot living on campus since at least the 1920s....however the school did not officially adopt "Bulldogs" as its team nickname until 1961. They were first the Aggies, and then the Maroons.
Posted by BrerTiger
Valley of the Long Grey Cloud
Member since Sep 2011
21506 posts
Posted on 7/25/18 at 2:59 pm to
My elementary school in the early 80s in Baton Rouge had some LSU book on the bookshelf that I would pick up and pour over whenever we had free time to do as we pleased.

This fact stood out to me as interesting:

LSU played Santa Clara in the Sugar Bowl.
Twice.
And lost both times.

After the 1936 and 1937 seasons. LSU lost one other game over that two year span: a 7-6 loss to Vandy.

Santa Clara has only been to 3 bowl games ever and disbanded the football team after the 1992 season. They never lost a bowl game (their other win was over Kentucky in the 1950 Orange Bowl). Their only loss in 1936 or 1937 was to Sammy Baugh and TCU.

Santa Freaking Clara.
This post was edited on 7/25/18 at 3:00 pm
Posted by The Winner
Member since Nov 2016
7909 posts
Posted on 7/25/18 at 3:00 pm to
We're 1-0 vs Michigan all Time and the game wasn't even close.
Posted by kywildcatfanone
Wildcat Country!
Member since Oct 2012
119118 posts
Posted on 7/25/18 at 3:03 pm to
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You thought wrong. We are a javelin school. Finished 1-2 in the NCAA this year.


Posted by WG_Dawg
Hoover
Member since Jun 2004
86467 posts
Posted on 7/25/18 at 3:03 pm to
quote:

is incorrectly said that UGA stole the bulldog mascot from Yale, but in fact the original mascot of Georgia was "The Red And Black". In the early 20th century, a newspaper reporter from Atlanta referred to the team as bulldogs, and the name stuck. The bulldog mascot was made official.


I'm not at a computer so can't easily look it up but I believe there was a very brief period in the 1920s where we went by the Wildcats.
Posted by kywildcatfanone
Wildcat Country!
Member since Oct 2012
119118 posts
Posted on 7/25/18 at 3:03 pm to
quote:

While at LSU, Les Miles was 1-34 in games he lost
Posted by genro
Member since Nov 2011
61788 posts
Posted on 7/25/18 at 3:08 pm to
2008 was the first time Bama beat Auburn in Tuscaloosa, ever


Posted by genro
Member since Nov 2011
61788 posts
Posted on 7/25/18 at 3:15 pm to
Bear Bryant once called the Auburn coaches office at 6am sharp, only for a secretary to inform him the coaches had not arrived for the day yet. Bryant growled, "What the hell's the matter with y'all? Don't y'all take your football seriously?" and slammed the phone down
Posted by GoCrazyAuburn
Member since Feb 2010
34884 posts
Posted on 7/25/18 at 3:24 pm to
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2008 was the first time Bama beat Auburn in Tuscaloosa, ever



God that game sucked. On top of that, my car got blocked in so I had no way of leaving for an additional 2 hours after the game.
Posted by GoCrazyAuburn
Member since Feb 2010
34884 posts
Posted on 7/25/18 at 3:25 pm to
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Bear Bryant once called the Auburn coaches office at 6am sharp, only for a secretary to inform him the coaches had not arrived for the day yet. Bryant growled, "What the hell's the matter with y'all? Don't y'all take your football seriously?" and slammed the phone down



Not everyone has to be at the bar by 3, Mr. Bryant
Posted by Ed Osteen
Member since Oct 2007
57475 posts
Posted on 7/25/18 at 3:56 pm to
LSU was the first college team to play on foreign soil. They beat Cuba 56-0 in the Bacardi Bowl in 1907.

They also lost to Bama that year, 6 to 4
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