Eighty-five football seasons.
Eighty-four years and ten months.
That’s how long Ralph O’Gwynne’s name was on the top line in the Auburn football record book for the longest scoring run from scrimmage: 92 yards.
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‘I told Bobby we came to play’: 1981 audio of Pat Dye talking about butting heads with Bobby Bowden over recruits
“I told Bobby we came to play and he said he understood that.”
Polo on the Plains: Auburn was south’s dominant team in the 1930s
Auburn was kind of a horse college in the 1930s. Like, a really good one. “I believe we had about 85 horses, enough to mount two teams for six periods,” W.J. Klepinger told Inside The Auburn Tigers magazine in 1982. Klepinger was the head coach of Auburn’s 1935 polo team. Yes, polo. “We used riding […]
Newspapers, AP described Bama’s 1961 national championship as its first
We know that, once upon a Tide, folks at Alabama thought that Auburn had them beat on the national title race by four whole years. But what about papers other than the Crimson-White? Did Joe Reporter covering Wherever, USA think that Bama’s 1961 national championship was its very first? And not 1925 or 1926 or 1930 or […]
Former Auburn football star got acting start as world’s premiere Burt Reynolds lookalike
“There’s, like, 15 girls there and I’m thinking that I’ve walked into something here that I might not be able to back away from.”