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 [...]
What we know for sure is that it brought out the cameras. And hallelujah, the one belonging to Cecil Bridges had some Kodachrome in it. And if there’s anything that can give you a feel of what rolling wires and lines and anything but trees might be like, it’s these never before seen COLOR photos—the only we know of—of real people living just like we live: blue blue jeans, orange spray paint, taste the rainbow, kiss the dragon.
An Auburn gymnastics meet is something different from most things you’ve seen in sports. There isn’t a ball, a bat, a club, or a racquet. There are hand grips and chalk powder. Stripe-suited referees are replaced by judges seated at a scoring table. Gone is the green of a playing field or the reflective shine [...]
1991 wasn’t the best of years Auburn fans. Our first losing season in a decade was in the works; a traitorous, sanction-loving moon was in the 7th field house. But while the quality of football Auburn had cultivated in the late 80s was waning, by God, the low-fat, low-calorie ground beef its meat scientists had developed during that same time had arrived, and what it may have lacked in taste it made up for in pride.
Cox Media Group’s 97.3 The Zone might not be able to get Paul Finebaum away from WJOX, but they are trying something different in sports talk radio in Birmingham, with an Auburn alum sharing the helm.
That Auburn fans will eventually be rolling not trees at Toomer’s Corner but an “attractive intersection structure” made specifically for that purpose appears to be increasingly likely, like it or not. Here are six more examples of what rolling wires in the historic, orgiastic, Click-it-Or Ticket-less center of the Toomer’s Corner intersection looked like.
TieTry.com, a business built off the Netflix model, is the brainchild of 2003 Auburn graduates Scott Tindle and David Powers. It allows subscribers the opportunity to “borrow” ties just as Netflix allows users to borrow movies.
Ah, the ’50s, when if Alabamians wanted to root for a winning team, they had to root for Auburn… when the tiger at the Magic City’s brand new menagerie was named the Auburn Tiger and when the elephant was named “Miss Fancy.”
A recent study of old photos housed in the Auburn University archives suggests that the two cherished live oaks are actually likely just over 70 years old.
