When he walked at graduation William H. Holley, like many before and since, shook the hand of the university’s president, Dr. Bradford Knapp. At that time the president lived in Cater Hall. The governor was Bibb Graves. Know those names? The oaks at Toomer’s hadn’t been planted yet. Toomer’s Drugs was still competing with Homer [...]
Dear New Auburn Men, War Eagle and congratulations on your decision to enroll at Auburn University. Football is an important reason why you’re coming to Auburn. Football will occupy a lot of your time. It isn’t the most important reason you’re coming here. As Gene Chizik says, this place was great long before any of [...]
We can all agree that the team Alabama put on the field this football season was an impressive one. They mauled everyone they faced (hooray for second chances!) and did it mostly on the strength of a scary good defense. Quantifying such a defense is one of the joys of the off season, when there [...]
Onterio McCalebb has moved up to 14th all time in rushing at Auburn, passing Secdrick McIntyre and is one good run shy of Lionel James. Now that he’s coming back for his senior year, his annual 600+ yards per season production would put him eighth, behind Ronnie Brown. O-Mac finished the 2011 season with 1,323 [...]
The guy with the long blond hair walked on and played two seasons at Auburn. He was drafted by the Birmingham Stallions (remember them?) and then went on to a huge career in the NFL. Now Kevin Greene can say he had a Hall of Fame caliber career. Greene is still tied for second on the [...]
Best of luck, Mike. It seems this might have been one of the last carries in Mike Dyer’s storied Auburn career. Dyer, who broke Bo Jackson’s freshman rushing record and slid into the vaunted top 10 of rushing at Auburn in just two years, is reportedly taking his ball and going … somewhere. Rumors have [...]
The complete SEC story of victories against teams that finished in the top 25 of the BCS for the years between 2008-2011.
Gene Chizik passed Doug Barfield to move into seventh place in all-time wins at Auburn. Up next: Terry Bowden! He may take him and Jack Meagher down late in 2013. (His winning percentage is still higher than Bowden’s, and the best of the 20th and 21st century.) Onterio McCalebb has moved up to 14th all [...]
… and Cam might make it yet.
If that record-breaking rookie of the year, game-changing NFL future doesn’t pan out for the top draft pick in your hearts, there’s always going to be other work for Cam Newton. Cameron Newton, just hours after breaking longstanding NFL records dismissed questions about the gridiron and concentrated on something really important. He’s teaming up with [...]
