It’s Watch a 1959 Auburn Play Develop Via Rare Color Snapshots From The Stands Tuesday, brought to you by photographer J.B. Hollingsworth and archivist Allen Spain! These fine specimens are from that year’s Auburn-Tennessee game, the SEC opener and first game of the season for both teams. Click to enlarge. Tennessee beat Auburn that day, [...]

A couple of weeks back it was Pat Sullivan. Now we’ve got Bo Jackson on Bob Hope’s All-American Show, 1983 and 1985. Buckle up because we’re going to ride this Heisman statue news cycle for all it’s worth. Speaking of, here are the promotional materials Auburn put on for Bo’s Heisman campaign. Video provided by [...]

Cleaner, brighter, more muscle tone and wing definition, repaired beaks—the venerable ol’ eagles have returned to Toomer’s Corner. The two 350 pound marble statues were placed back atop their pillar perches at a media event Friday morning. We were there. We took video. Warm feelings all around. Before the big moment, I talked with Terry [...]

Of all the A-Days, in all the springs, in all the seasons, this is the one you would have wanted to walk into. From the May 15, 1969 issue of The Auburn Plainsman: Pat Sullivan and Terry Beasley’s performance that spring (and beyond) eventually inspired a dandy ditty dignifying the Dynamic Duo that distinguished da’ [...]

My favorite movie as a kid was the 1987 Iron Bowl and my favorite actor was Kurt Crain, because Kurt Crain and Aundray Bruce were “hoping to sack themselves an SEC title” and Kurt Crain “put the lumber” to Clay Whitehurst and Kurt Crain “knocked the ball loose. Ballgame. Ballgame.” Ballgame. Kurt Crain. (Holy flourishes [...]

The Toomer’s Corner eagle statues will return to their perches sometime Thursday and will be officially unveiled Friday at 10 a.m. as part of A-Day weekend festivities, according to a source with The Lathan Company, the Mobile-based historic preservation company in charge of the statues’ restoration. In November, the marble statues were removed and sent to Washington D.C. for cleaning [...]

They appeared over the winter—two vertical fissures only on the southwest side of the Toomer’s Corner oak closest to College Street. They look like the marks left on a tree if it’s struck by lightning, except they don’t—lightning tracks start at the top of the tree and end at the bottom. The fissures on the [...]

The bronze statues of Auburn’s Three Heismen have all been delivered to their permanent home outside the east entrance of Jordan-Hare Stadium. The statues will be covered and kept under 24-hour police guard until they’re unveiled Saturday before Auburn’s A-Day game. The bronze statues of Auburn’s Three Heismen have all been delivered to their permanent [...]

On Friday the bust of John Heisman was installed outside Jordan-Hare. Today it was a statue of one of Auburn’s Heisman Trophy winners. But which one? Pat Sullivan seems a likely guess. The statue is currently covered with a blue tarp that appears to conceal the outline of quarterback’s throwing motion; the statues were designed [...]

The statues honoring Auburn’s three Heisman Trophy winners, Pat Sullivan, Bo Jackson, and Cam Newton will be installed some time next week according to Cassie Arner, Auburn’s assistant athletic director for public relations. But how will Auburn keep the statues under wraps until they’re unveiled a few hours before next Saturday’s annual A-Day game? By [...]