🏈 What was your first Bama game to watch or attend?

[MissingRing]

First Alabama game to see in person was the undefeated (and untied) 1966 team at Tuscaloosa vs. South Carolina.

 

[252BAMA]

Rick, I am not trying to say that you are old, but I am pretty sure that the first game you saw in person was the 1926 Rose Bowl game against Washington. I remember going to th train station to see you and Crimson Pirate off. I was a mere child at the time.

The first game that I saw in person was at Crampton Bowl in Montgomery in 1953 against Southern Miss. Red Drew was Alabama's coach then. I was seven years old. Southern Miss had a pretty good team, led by Jimmy Davenport, who later played 3B for the Giants for a good many years. Southern Miss beat us 7-2, when we blocked a punt late, and it rolled out of the end zone before we could cover it.

The first TV game that I remember seeing was the 1959 Liberty Bowl game against Penn State. This was Bryant v. Engel (Paterno was an assistant on that staff.) We could manage only a field goal, and Penn State got a touchdown off of a fake field goal, defeating us 7-3.

Do you know who the holder (who threw the TD pass) was on the fake FG for PSU?

 

[psychojoe]

Do you know who the holder (who threw the TD pass) was on the fake FG for PSU?

I probably should, but I don't recall his name.

 

[rick4bama]

I know , but I also look it up too. He become and SEC coach, the last I heard he was on and NFL coaching staff.

 

[252BAMA]

Galen Hall

Images for Galen hall 1959 liberty bowl

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[rick4bama]

But you have to understand this too. That was the first time Southerner boys from Bama played a game in snow and Coach Bryant said,it was the coldest too.

 

[bamaledge]

I can't remember what the first of either was but the first game I went to was at legion field. It seems like I have always watched the games when I could and when I couldn't I listened to them on the radio.

 

[crimsonpirate]

First Bama game I saw "live" was the 1959 Memphis State game. Bama won 14-7 at Denny Stadium.