A bit about Alabama:
Colors: Crimson and White
Mascot: Crimson Tide
Location: Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Last Meeting : Georgia won 37-23 (2003)
All-Time Record: 25-35-4 (Alabama leads)
Did you know?
How did the Crimson Tide get its name? In early newspaper
accounts of Alabama football, the team was simply listed as the "varsity"
or the "Crimson White" after the school colors.
The first nickname to become popular and used by headline writers was the "Thin
Red Line." The nickname was used until 1906.
The name "Crimson Tide" is supposed to have first been used by Hugh
Roberts, former sports editor of the Birmingham Age-Herald. He used "Crimson
Tide" in describing an Alabama-Auburn game played in Birmingham in 1907,
the last football contest between the two schools until 1948 when the series
was resumed. The game was played in a sea of mud and Auburn was a heavy favorite
to win.
But, evidently, the "Thin Red Line" played a great game in the red
mud and held Auburn to a 6-6 tie, thus gaining the name "Crimson Tide."
Zipp Newman, former sports editor of the Birmingham News, probably popularized
the name more than any other writer.
Source: UA
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