Things sure have changed in Auburn. These days, all we do is coddle lazy owls and provide eagles with free cataract surgery so they won't trigger PETA alarms by crashing into windows or whatever. Those days, April 1972 to be exact, were were just walking around killing pigeons with our bare hands. It was the poop. Charles Simmons, Auburn's assistant director of … [Read more...] about The great Auburn University pigeon extermination of 1972
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It’s Pronounced Jordan: Investigating Shug’s links to the Sausage King of Vestavia
Where exactly did Kess Fabian live? Was he married? Was he not? Somebody had to do it. If you like TWER, please consider becoming one of the 100. Thanks! … [Read more...] about It’s Pronounced Jordan: Investigating Shug’s links to the Sausage King of Vestavia
‘The Egg-shaped Affair’: More tales of pre-historic Auburn football
If you like TWER, please consider becoming one of the 100. Thanks! Add to the evidence that football wasn't some completely foreign concept at Auburn prior to Papa Petrie, PhD bringing his sophisticated, scrum-less version in 1891 this speech by an "old Auburn star"--possibly Dutch Dorsey--at a 1904 meeting of the Atlanta Athletic Club describing what was likely Auburn's … [Read more...] about ‘The Egg-shaped Affair’: More tales of pre-historic Auburn football
Shug Jordan thought playoffs were for the pros
If you like TWER, please consider becoming one of the 100. Thanks! Auburn's first great coach was all about a college football playoff. Shug was not. Yes, pretty much every other NCAA sport had one. But add four games to a football schedule? Maybe more? Just go ahead and take the "college" off the game, because in terms of time commitment and physical toll, that there … [Read more...] about Shug Jordan thought playoffs were for the pros
That time a cluttered Auburn heart cried for expression on integration (and paid the price)
On May 9, 1962, sophomore Jim Dinsmore penned a column, "Cluttered Heart Cries for Expression on Issues," in The Auburn Plainsman. The column wandered over a variety of topics. One paragraph would ignite a firestorm. That was it. A single paragraph on integration that turned out to be accurate in its forecast. But meetings and statements and letters later, Dinsmore … [Read more...] about That time a cluttered Auburn heart cried for expression on integration (and paid the price)