Here is the essential keepsake for every Alabama football fan, with
stories and statistic about the greats of Bama history: Bear Bryant,
Nick Saban, Joe Namath, Ken Stabler, John Hannah, Lee Roy Jordan,
Derrick Thomas, Cornelius Bennett, Julio Jones, Dont'a Hightower, Calvin
Ridley, Mark Ingram Jr. and Derrick Henry.
Alabama's Crimson Tide has been the most dominant college football team
in America for the past decade, winning five national championships and
five conference titles. The team, under coach Nick Saban, has won an
astounding ninety percent of its games since 2008, and established a
dynasty unparalleled in modern college football.
As impressive as Saban and his teams have been, these are far from the
only glory days in Alabama football history, and their great tradition
is celebrated in Miracle Moments in Alabama Crimson Tide Football
History.
Mark Mayfield chronicles Alabama's colorful football history dating to
when their first team won a scrimmage, 56-0, over a group of Birmingham
high school players in 1892. Three decades later, Alabama pulled off a
stunning 20-19 upset of West Coast powerhouse Washington in the 1926
Rose Bowl, won its first national championship, and took its place among
the elite teams in America with seventeen national titles through eras
coached by Wallace Wade, Frank Thomas, the legendary Paul "Bear" Bryant,
Gene Stallings, and Saban.