Why crimson tide for alabama

As explained on the University of Alabama athletics website, sports writer Everett Strupper of the Atlanta Journal wrote a story of the Alabama-Mississippi game he had witnessed in Tuscaloosa four days earlier [in October ].

As with the Crimson Tide name, his description stuck. Home NCAA. Believe what you want. Where did these iconic mascots come from? FBS Football. But where did the nickname "Crimson Tide" come from?

It's complicated. Who is created the nickname 'Crimson Tide'? But it may not be true. Undefeated college football teams in Here are the last remaining undefeated teams for the season. October surprises from the college football season Here are some of the biggest surprises from the last month of college football. Follow FBS Football. Nothing about No. So how did one of college football's blue bloods on the path to win its third national title in four years come to be represented by an animal most often associated with the circus, Dumbo and the Republican Party?

Bryant Museum in Tuscaloosa. It's not an obvious type of thing. Especially considering that "Crimson Tide" entered the pantheon of Alabama traditions long before elephants did. After originally going by "varsity," "Crimson White" the school colors and "The Thin Red Line," Birmingham Age-Herald sports editor Hugh Roberts coined the term "Crimson Tide" to describe 'Bama's heroic effort in holding heavily favored Auburn to a 6—6 tie in a mud-soaked game in that had the 'Bama players looking like a red tidal wave.

The nickname stuck. You have to fast-forward 23 years to come upon the first mention of elephants to describe Alabama football. Like the team's nickname, it was the brainchild of a sports writer. 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. View all ACC Sites. More Big 12 News ». More FS Big 12 News ». View all Big 12 Sites.

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