n 1892, Anthony Foster McKissick, the first director of Auburn’s first electrical engineering laboratory, helped lay the foundation for Auburn football as the Tigers’ first center. Four years later, he helped do the same for a scientific breakthrough that changed the world.
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Six Thoughts on the 2021-2022 Auburn Tigers, SEC Men’s Basketball Champions
One. Ask Tiger fans for the defining moment of the 2021-2022 Auburn men’s basketball season (thus far), and answers will vary widely. Fans have many fine jaw-dropping options. So it feels odd mine isn’t a basketball play at all. Mine occurred during a timeout with 5:49 remaining in the first half of Auburn’s win in […]
The 1937 Bacardi Bowl: Auburn football’s first bowl game was the first, real bowl game played overseas
Auburn (7-2-1). Villanova (7-2). Tropical Stadium. Havana, Cuba. New Year’s Day, 1937, the second to last day of the week-long first “Cuban National Sports Festival.” They called it the Bacardi Bowl. Or the Rhumba Bowl. Or the Cigar Bowl. (The New York Times called it a the “battle of the palms.”) But mostly the Bacardi […]
Top 15 Auburn Dunks of All-Time*
A (totally subjective) definitive list of the top 15 Auburn in-game
dunks (for which there is video evidence).
Bill Holbrook’s ‘The Thing That Ate Auburn’
The Plainsman has had some great cartoonists over the college years. But there was this stretch from the early 70s through the early 80s where there was some real, like, graphic novel quality stuff happening in the editorial pages. Case in pointiest: “Kevin and Kell,” “Safe Havens,” and “On The Fastrack” creator Bill Holbrook‘s copyrighted […]