🏈 Can you name these people

[doemasters]

I was going through some old compact discs and found one that had about 1900 alabama pictures my brother had given me and i just batched converted them to jpg files so i could share with everyone

Anyway here is a few images to see who can guess who they area

 

[It Takes Eleven]

First is the family, including Bryant, Jr.?

Color phot0 - is that Mel Allen, Billy Martin, Steinbrenner and Coach Bryant?

 

[OldPlayer]

Isn't the first one Pat Trammel?

 

[doemasters]

 

[rammerjammer]

Not to sidetrack the thread, but Mel Allen used to call Alabama football. I remember reading that in the Bryant Museum. They had various announcers through the years and he was one.......a looong time ago.

Every time I hear Mel Allen all I think of is This Week in Baseball and TWIB notes. Loved that guys voice.

Of all the Alabama announcers, none made me more nostalgic than Doug Layton. Everytime I heard that man's voice it takes me back to being 14 years old in the front yard with my best friend throwing the football and listening to Bama football on the "boom box" on a crisp fall afternoon.

 

[doemasters]

@rammerjammer

U.S. President John F. Kennedy, center, poses with, from left, University of Alabama (UA) football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant, White House Army Signal Agency John J. Cochran, All-American UA quarterback Pat Trammell, UA President Frank Rose, sportscaster Mel Allen, UA sports Hall of Famer Young Boozer Jr., Birmingham News sports writer Benny Marshall, and Alabama businessman Tom Russell at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City in December 1961.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

@rammerjammer

U.S. President John F. Kennedy, center, poses with, from left, University of Alabama (UA) football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant, White House Army Signal Agency John J. Cochran, All-American UA quarterback Pat Trammell, UA President Frank Rose, sportscaster Mel Allen, UA sports Hall of Famer Young Boozer Jr., Birmingham News sports writer Benny Marshall, and Alabama businessman Tom Russell at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City in December 1961.

I always thought it funny that Young Boozer's son, (Young Boozer, III) ended up working for Bobby Lowder at Colonial. He landed on his feet well, though, as State Treasurer.

 

[Sid Youngleman]

Color phot0 - is that Mel Allen, Billy Martin, Steinbrenner and Coach Bryant?

The man on the left is actually Bert Bank, founder of the Alabama Football Radio Network, Bataan Death March survivor (and one of the freed POWs in The Great Raid) and close friend of Steinbrenner. Mr. Bank was one of the finest Tuscaloosa gentlemen I knew while I was growing up.

 

[doemasters]

 

[OldPlayer]

<--Far left: Dude Hennessy
-->This side of Bryant: Sam Bailey
-->Next to Sam: Ken Donahue

 

[bamachine]

Not to sidetrack the thread, but Mel Allen used to call Alabama football. I remember reading that in the Bryant Museum. They had various announcers through the years and he was one.......a looong time ago.

Every time I hear Mel Allen all I think of is This Week in Baseball and TWIB notes. Loved that guys voice.

Of all the Alabama announcers, none made me more nostalgic than Doug Layton. Everytime I heard that man's voice it takes me back to being 14 years old in the front yard with my best friend throwing the football and listening to Bama football on the "boom box" on a crisp fall afternoon.

That was Forney for me.