Why crimson tide

His writing popularized the name and, it eventually became part of Alabama football. 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 ].

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Prior to the adoption of the nickname of "Crimson Tide," newspaper accounts from the early s called Alabama simply the "Alabama football team," "Crimson," "Crimson and White," or "the Alabama football eleven," with "eleven" being a common refrain a century ago in reference to the number of players on the field for each team.

Alabama's first nickname was the "Thin Red Line," another war reference which was used to describe Alabama teams, according to Alabama's website. The following graph shows the popularity of the term "Alabama Crimson Tide," according to the newspapers.

The following paragraph comes from a game recap after Alabama's win over Clemson in October , when Alabama scored the game's only points on a yard field goal. Watson, the Bryant Museum curator, said before the "thin red line," Alabama's informal nickname used to be the cadets because the university was a military school "and then newspapers, they called them the warriors," he said.

The only thing I've ever seen is in the '20s, that's when the university kind of started using it if they were putting something out, they would use Crimson Tide and I've been trying to find — and I haven't found it — the first use of 'Roll Tide. Using the database of newspapers. Most of the early newspaper references to the Crimson Tide referred to the nickname as "Alabama's" Crimson Tide, often with "Crimson Tide" in parentheses or at least one of "crimson" or "tide" spelled in lowercase.

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