We’ve been having some fun in the microfiche recently.
Our favorite item in this January 2, 1895 article in The Plainsman isn’t the revelation that Bama, while issuing sanctimonious statements about eradicating professionalism in college sports (and coming off a two week break) had to pay “four or five” players from Wesleyan University’s football team — Dan Hollis’ Auburn Football ‚ The Complete History, 1892-1987 says that two of them were professional freaking boxers — to beat Auburn. which had played Georgia just five days earlier, for the first time, but how easily the cheer serving as the paper’s official response can be construed as “Jihad! Jihad! Jihad! Ha, ha, ha!”
Let’s bring that one back.
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Lying
A University of Alabama tradition since 1894.
Hey, they do have some real traditions!
I like the writers’s style.
Also, it is funny how the more things change the more they stay the same.
I’m wondering if “jehah” is the equivalent of “Jihad?” Because I certainly declared a Jihad on them ages ago. Or at least issued a strongly-worded fatwa.
Also, if I’d known about this “Jehah” cheer, I would have yelled it at the National Championship Game in Arizona. That would’ve been nice.
Great story. I am actually one of Dan Hollis’ grandsons and a huge War Eagle Reader fan. Keep up the good work.
This just in: the University of Alabama Compliance Department looked conducted a full-scale, all-hands investigation of this allegation this morning and announced that there was nothing to it.
Dadgummit, I knew I should have looked over my post before hitting “submit.” I changed the wording as I was writing it, but left in the “looked” part.
Tradition Never Graduates
Tradition Never Even Attends