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Shug Jordan had a copy of the first publication of the Auburn Creed with him on D-Day
From a forthcoming treatise on the Auburn Creed by Ben Bartley, excerpted here on the occasion of the 69th anniversary of D-Day. George Petrie wrote The Auburn Creed on November 12, 1943. He was 77. The Plainsman published the “Auburn Student’s Creed” on January 21, 1944. Shug Jordan arrived at Normandy on June 6, 1944 […]
12 Attempts to Explain Why Everything You Love Must Die (And Be Reborn)
1. You were born an Auburn fan. Fate and choice conspired to burden your days with this nonsense. Worse fates? Yes, there are worse fates and worse choices to be made. As an Auburn fan, you believe a worse fate would have been being born an Alabama fan. But if you were born an Alabama […]
The Atkins Diet: Catfish, coffee, and crime fuel Auburn football icon’s pursuit of That Perfect Novel
Auburn Magazine ran a version of this in its latest issue. It was the cover story. Here’s the original. Taylor, Mississippi’s about 15 minutes outside Oxford down Old Taylor Road. The road twists and bends through pastoral greenery and sudden tilled fields toward the town. Might be best to say Taylor’s a village. Population’s right […]
Dr. Travis S. Taylor: Attempting to Understand Auburn’s Ubermensch
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook […]