Iron Bowl Gold

Alabama 55 | Auburn 0 December 4, 1948 marked the first day that the Alabama Crimson Tide & Auburn Tigers would battle it out on Legion Field to win the sacred Iron Bowl.  Because the two schools could not cooperate together they discontinued...

Alabama 34 | Auburn 0 Coming back from a defeat the year before, the Crimson Tide blew the Tigers out of the water.  Players Butch Avinger, Ed Salem, Bobby Marlow & Tom Calvin were the "big horses in the backfield" who led their team to a 1950...

Alabama 25 | Auburn 7 Bobby Marlow, Bobby Wilson & Bimbo Melton were the Crimson stars that shone on December 2, 1951.  “Young Mr. Marlow and his cohort, Wilson, took this background of sad predictions and turned it into the...

Alabama 21 | Auburn 0 Bama did it again.  On November 30, 1952 the “Crimson Elephants stomped to a 21-0 win over the Never-Say-Die Tiger foe.” —Walling Keith, The Birmingham News.  The Tide went on to play Syracuse in the...

Alabama 10 | Auburn 7  The Tigers’ coach Shug Jordan believed the 1953 Iron Bowl game to be the most important ever to date for Auburn.  A lot was on the line as the Cotton Bowl bid was up for both teams.  It was a close game, but...

Alabama 10 | Auburn 0 Bama’s key players who helped the Tide pull off a ‘W’ against Auburn after five years were many - Marlin Dyess, Pat Trammell, Billy Neighbors, Don Cochran, Bill Hannah, Jim Blevins, Gary Phillips, Buddy Wesley,...

Alabama 3 | Auburn 0 Alabama kept it’s winning streak alive against the Auburn Tigers.  But not by much.  Bama’s Kicker Tommy Brooker put the only points on the board for the entire game.   Bobby Skelton (#11) holds the ball...

Alabama 31 | Auburn 0 Bama held Auburn to zero for the third year in a row.  ”I’m tremendously proud of this Alabama football team, and tremendously proud of the seniors.  They had enough confidence in their in state university to...

Alabama 38 | Auburn 0 Coach Bryant predicted this would be a tough game against Shug and his team, but the Tide proved their coach wrong, again — for the fourth consecutive year they did not allow Auburn to score in their infamous match...

Alabama 21 | Auburn 14 With a perfect season and talk of the National Title, Bama had a lot on the line.  An exciting action-filled game propelled the Crimson Tide to be named the National Champions.   From 26 yards out, Ray Perkins...

Alabama 30 | Auburn 3 “I don’t know when I’ve ever been prouder of a team than this one.  I’ve never seen or been around one that came as far as this one has since September.  I think the leadership of our seniors is...

Alabama 31 | Auburn 0 After another beat down against the Auburn Tigers, Alabama ends their season perfectly with a 10-0 record.  This, however, was not enough to land them a third consecutive National Championship although Coach Bryant believed...