Was a Bama lean in the Harry Gilmer years, but officially signed the LOI on 01/01/1953 after the Orange Bowl. Similar to what Bama fans have been subjected to this past month with UGA being proclaimed the top team/program, I spent the month of December '52 hearing and reading how ''The Beast of the East" Syracuse was going to beat Bama. And yes, we had radio, newspapers, and magazines back then. Even TV. Inasmuch as that game was but the third Bama game ever televised, it was also the first Bama game I ever saw since I did not watch the first two. The first game I ever attended would be later that year on the TSIO.