Answer: Michigan
Michigan would ultimately end the 2012 season (8-5, 6-2 Big Ten) with a loss to another SEC team, South Carolina.
From Quiz: Alabama University Football 2012
Answer: Big Al
The Alabama elephant mascot began in 1930 when an anonymous fan shouted "Hold your horses, the elephants are coming." Big Al, in costume, made his debut at the l979 Sugar Bowl.
From Quiz: Go Bama, Go
Answer: 1892
The first game that the Crimson Tide ever played was against Birmingham High School on Nov. 11, 1892. The next day in a rematch Birmingham High won 5-4. The two teams played once more that season with Alabama coming out on top 14-0.
From Quiz: Alabama Football
Answer: 3
The Tide won three national titles during the decade, as well as eight SEC championships!
From Quiz: Crimson Tide
Answer: Washington
Alabama won the championship in the Rose Bowl. Their record was 10-0.
From Quiz: Alabama Football Championships
Answer: Richard Todd
Richard Todd, the correct answer to this question, was not only a quarterback for the Alabama Crimson Tide, but also went on to play in the NFL for 11 seasons. He was drafted by the New York Jets in 1976 and led them to the AFC Championship game in 1982. Todd also had a brief stint with the New Orleans Saints before retiring in 1985. Despite his success in the NFL, Todd is still remembered by many Alabama fans for his time as a Tide quarterback.
From Quiz: Alabama Football
Answer: Shaun Alexander
Alexander passes Bobby Humphrey in the 1999 Iron Bowl.
From Quiz: Alabama Football
Answer: Arkansas
This was the first time Arkansas had been shut out since 2005 when they lost 28-0 to LSU. The last time the Tide had back-to-back shutout wins was in 1980, against Vanderbilt and Kentucky.
From Quiz: Alabama University Football 2012
Answer: Cornelius Bennett
Bennett went to Ensley High School in Birmingham, AL. He won the Lombardi Award (best college linebacker or lineman) in 1986. He played in FIVE Superbowls after his days at Alabama (1990-91-92-93 with Buffalo and 1998 with Atlanta), retiring from the NFL in 2000.
The other answers were also former football players with ties to Birmingham, AL.
From Quiz: Where the Tide Hath Rolled
Answer: 0
In spite of the many great players at Alabama during Bear Bryant's years as coach, none of these were awarded the Heisman Trophy.
From Quiz: Go Bama, Go
Answer: 34-14
Alabama dominated this game the whole way. They out-gained USC 292-6 on the ground and held them scoreless for 3 quarters. This was a major stepping stone in Alabama's road to dominance.
From Quiz: Crimson Tide History
Answer: The season was cancelled due to WWI
Alabama was just one of many schools to cancel all non-academic activities during WWI.
From Quiz: Alabama Football
Answer: Florida & Southern Miss
Florida defeated the Tide 10-6 in 1963. Southern Miss won 38-29 in 1982.
From Quiz: Crimson Tide
Answer: Liberty
"Bear" coached his final 323rd victory in the 1982 Liberty Bowl, defeating Big 10 foe Illinois 21-15. That gave Bear the record of 323 victories that stood for almost 20 years! Although Eddie Robinson set a record for most wins by a collegiate coach with over 450 wins.
From Quiz: Crimson Tide Football
Answer: Wallace Wade
Alabama was 9-0-1 that year.
From Quiz: Alabama Football Championships
Answer: New York
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From Quiz: Alabama Football
Answer: Shaun Alexander
Alexander ran for 296 against LSU and scored four times.
From Quiz: Alabama Football
Answer: Ole Miss
Alabama would defeat the Ole Miss Rebels 33-14. It was in this game that A.J. McCarron would break Alabama's record of most passes without an interception (190, set my Brody Croyle in 2005); he finished the game with 206 passes without an interception.
From Quiz: Alabama University Football 2012
Answer: Rose Bowl
The Crimson Tide defeated Washington 20-19 in the Rose Bowl, and capped off a perfect 10-0 season. They were actually the fifth team selected for the Rose Bowl that season. Washingon accepted a bowl bid then Dartmouth, Yale and Colgate all turned down chances to play them before Alabama accepted.
From Quiz: Alabama Football
Answer: 52
From 1985 through 1988, Thomas brought down an opposing quarterback an amazing 52 times! During his All-American senior season in 1988, he also set the school's single season sack record at 27.
From Quiz: Crimson Tide
Answer: Rose Bowl
Alabama defeated PAC-10 powerhouse Washington 20-19 in a star studded game. The Tide rolled into the National scene, with its first undefeated season and first National Title.
From Quiz: Crimson Tide Football
Answer: Washington State
Wallace Wade won his third championship with Alabama.
From Quiz: Alabama Football Championships
Answer: Miami Florida
Derrick Thomas, a former linebacker for the Kansas City Chiefs, was born in Miami, Florida. He played college football for the Alabama Crimson Tide, where he set the school record for sacks in a single season. Thomas went on to have a successful NFL career, earning nine Pro Bowl selections and being inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2009. Despite his success on the field, Thomas tragically passed away in 2000 due to complications from a car accident.
From Quiz: Alabama Football
Answer: Miami
The Tide beat the Hurricanes 34-13 for our twelth national title.
From Quiz: Alabama Football
Answer: Missouri
Despite their hopes otherwise, the Missouri Tigers were introduced to SEC competition in 2012 and went 2-6 in conference and 5-7 overall.
From Quiz: Alabama University Football 2012
Answer: The Million Dollar Band
Alabama's band first began in 1912 with 14 members. Beginning in 1936 under the leadership of Colonel Charleton K. Butler, it rose to a nationally prominent college band. It is reported that the band earned its name in 1922 at game between Alabama and Georgia Tech which Georgia Tech won 33-7. W. C. Pickens, an Alabama alumnus, was asked "What do you have at Alabama?" He answered "A million dollar band."
From Quiz: Go Bama, Go
Answer: 16-15
This game is known to some as Bama's best comeback win considering that the Tide's best player, Pat Trammell was injured, and the backup kicker won the game on field goal with 3 seconds left.
From Quiz: Crimson Tide History
Answer: Namath
Namath quarterbacked the team from 1962-64, and Stabler from 1965-67. Namath passed for a then school record 2,714 yards in his three years at the helm. Paul "Bear" Bryant was selected as the coach of this team for posting a 232-46-9 record while at the school.
From Quiz: Alabama Football
Answer: Yellow Hammer
This chant includes the State Bird of Alabama, and is frequently used during all sporting events.
From Quiz: Crimson Tide Football
Answer: 10-0
Alabama rolled through Howard, Sewanee, Mississippi State, Tennessee, Georgia, Kentucky, Clemson, Georgia Tech, Vanderbilt and Stanford in the undefeated 1934 season.
From Quiz: Alabama Football Championships
Answer: J.B. 'Ears' Whitworth
Whitworth had only won four games in three seasons.
From Quiz: Alabama Football
Answer: Tennessee
Tennessee lost its sixth straight game against Alabama in this great rivalry that goes back to 1901.
From Quiz: Alabama University Football 2012
Answer: Houndstooth check hat
Bear Bryant originally wore a plain fedora or a baseball cap. In 1965, Sonny Werblin, an owner of the New York Jets, gave him his first houndstooth check hat. From then on, it was his trademark.
From Quiz: Go Bama, Go
Answer: Mama called
Not only did he return to Bama because "mama called", but he also never wore his signature houndstooth indoors including the Superdome for the Sugar Bowl, because his "mama taught him manners".
From Quiz: Crimson Tide History
Answer: 1996 (Freshman)
He rushed for 291 yards in just his eighth collegiate game. This was on Nov. 1996 in a 26-0 victory over LSU.
From Quiz: Alabama Football
Answer: 0
The Tide never had the pleasure of handing the Longhorns a loss. Although coming very close in the 1982 Cotton Bowl, the Tide fell short losing 14-9, after leading 7-0 going into the fourth quarter. That game made Coach Bryant 1-6 against the 'Horns.
From Quiz: Crimson Tide Football
Answer: Texas A&M
Alabama lost to Mississippi State and Vanderbilt that year.
From Quiz: Alabama Football Championships
Answer: Fiesta Bowl
Alabama lost to Louisville 34-7.
From Quiz: Alabama Football
Answer: LSU
LSU is where Nick Saban earned his first National Championship in the 2003 season.
From Quiz: Alabama University Football 2012
Answer: 4
Wallace Wade won the first in Tide history followed by Frank Thomas, then the greatest coach of all-time, Paul "Bear" Bryant. Stallings won the last in 1992.
From Quiz: Crimson Tide History
