For Ole Miss was truly battling the big boys for every inch of ground. Some excited fan in the stands bellowed, 'Hold your horses, the elephants are coming,' and out stamped this Alabama varsity.
Strupper and other writers continued to refer to the Alabama linemen as "Red Elephants," the color referring to the crimson jerseys. The team posted an overall record. It shut out eight opponents and allowed only 13 points all season while scoring I like to think that the second story is true… True strength and dominance, even back then!!!
This was one deciding factor when i was kid on who to pull for. I read up on both teams, but fell in love the the story for auburns war eagle tradition. The day the Birmingham police helped the University of Alabama football mascot retrieve his […]. Elephants do not belong in captivity, but if they are where they can reach people, they are restrained somehow for human safety.
The second story sounds a little more believable to me. I agree with Jeremiah, I think tradition runs deep and that makes more sense. Not a fan of seeing chains on the elephants in the pictures. I always liked the idea that it came from the Mark Brothers movie. Where Groucho as Capt. How he got into my pajamas i will never know. We tried to take the tusks out but they were too tight… Of course in Alabama the Tuscaloosa. Your email address will not be published.
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More from LostLettermen. Strupper and other writers referred to the linemen on that team — which won the third of Alabama's 14 claimed national championships — as "Red Elephants. But it would be nearly five decades until Alabama recognized the animal as its official mascot. Which isn't to say that elephants didn't factor in prominently to gameday tradition.
Auburn's "War Eagle" ]. During the s, the school kept a live elephant mascot named "Alamite. By the s, keeping a live elephant year round proved to be too expensive for the university. Instead, the school's "Spirit Planning Committee" started hiring elephants — often from traveling circuses passing through or by Tuscaloosa — for every homecoming. And in the early s, Alabama student Melford Espey went the extra mile and dressed up as the animal to cheer on his beloved team.
It was clear that Crimson Tide Nation's obsession with the pachyderm would not cease. So what took so long for the Alabama administration to adopt the animal as the school's official mascot? That was not the image of his players he wanted to portray. Bryant was Alabama's football coach and athletic director, not to mention a legendary figure that Crimson Tide fans would never cross. When Bryant shot down the elephant mascot idea, that was that.
But the same students that worshipped the Bear persisted, and he finally relented in the late s. The man who Bryant tasked with spearheading Big Al's creation was none other than Espey , who by that time was working as an Alabama administrator. Big Al's game debut was one to remember: The Sugar Bowl against top-ranked and undefeated Penn State, when a fourth-quarter goal line stand delivered No. And Big Al's been an omnipresent fixture on the Crimson Tide sidelines ever since.
He's still one of the most unique mascots in college football. Compared to its more fearsome mascot counterparts around the country like LSU's live tiger, Mike, Big Al looks like a big stuffed animal.
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