A (totally subjective) definitive list of the top 15 Auburn in-game
dunks (for which there is video evidence).
That time Shug Jordan bailed out the entire Georgia basketball team
Unlike other iconic college football coaches from yesteryear, Shug Jordan actually found time to coach basketball for a few seasons. And coach it well. In a 1968 interview, Kentucky’s Adolph Rupp said Shug was “as fine a football coach as he was a basketball coach.” Not only is Jordan Auburn’s fifth winningest basketball coach, with […]
Gus Malzahn in junior high
What better way to weather the football lull between National Signing Day and spring practice than to look at 35-year-old photos of Gus Malzahn during his awkward awesome years at Ramsey Junior High School in Fort Smith, Arkansas. We’re not sure what this Pittsburgh Pirates fan was studying here, but we’re sure he learned it […]
That Time Auburn Students Raided a Train in Their Underwear: A Briefs History
In a previous post, I described the chaotic night that Auburn’s head football coach resigned at a pep rally the night before the Florida game in the dismal season of 1927. A throng of students left campus that night and created mayhem in the loveliest village. In addition to starting a bonfire in the middle […]
That time Auburn students burned a Toomer’s oak
The 1920s were not kind to Auburn. API had been underfunded for years, and the president, Spright Dowell, spent most of his time focusing on the school’s financial struggles. He was known for favoring the Agriculture Department (and its interests in the state) over other college concerns. He especially opposed intercollegiate athletics, believing them to […]