Nine months after Richard Grammer’s death, the Alabama football program sank still lower, as powerful, integrated Southern Cal, led by Sam Cunningham, crushed the Crimson Tide, 42-21, in the 1970 season opener at Legion Field.
“That was a terrible game,” recalled Jim Grammer, who started the game at center. “It was a real beating. I’d like to say it wasn’t, but it was.”
In later years, the first game of a painful 6-5-1 season would be seen as a turning point in the integration of (more)
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It is the dream of every player who straps on a helmet—to someday be called an All-American.
Ever since Walter Camp introduced his first All-America team in 1889, the distinction has represented the highest level of achievement for a college player, short of winning the Heisman Trophy or one of the other major individual awards.
Through the 2010 season, 98 Alabama players have been selected first team All-Americans. More than three dozen others have been named second team, third team or honorable mention All-America.
But for various reasons, some of the greatest of all Alabama players never achieved All-America distinction…(more)
Over 100,000 fans, electrified by the occasion, milled around the quad waiting for kickoff. Not just any kickoff, but Bama vs. Tennessee. In 2009 it would prove to be Alabama’s toughest test. But for me that game was special for another reason.
Those same 100,000 fans were about to see an airplane toting a banner that had a very simple message. It was a website URL. It was my website. It was lightening in a bottle, and this was one for all Bama fans to enjoy. The banner said simply “www.ingramforheisman.com” and it was flying behind a single-engine plane. You have seen dozens of them. But this one was different. You felt good about it. That banner did not sell a product—it sold an agenda. (more)
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