The University Of Alabama Trivia Book

Author : Jessica Lacher-Feldman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-01
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781493073542

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The University of Alabama Trivia Book by Jessica Lacher-Feldman Pdf

The unofficial guide to the home of the Crimson Tide! Originally published in 2007, The University of Alabama Trivia Book has been updated with a wealth of new and recent facts about the home of the Crimson Tide. Over 700 questions (with answers!) and quotations span the nearly 200-year history of UA, ranging from the fun to the significant, and from the bizarre to the informative. This book is the quintessential source of information about Alabama’s oldest and largest public university, perfect for current and prospective students, alumni, college sports fans, and Tuscaloosans in town and all over the world. Updates include facts related to much-beloved football in the Nick Saban era, interesting statistics and sports records, and some fascinating faculty trivia, bringing new stories and names to light. Discover obscure facts, forgotten lore, and exciting tidbits about everything from student life and traditions to Town and Gown, including: Who was the first woman to earn a law degree at UA? What are the origins of "Big Al"? What year did the football team start wearing hard helmets? When was air conditioning first installed on campus? And much more!

Author : David M. Battles
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527536197

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Yea, Alabama! The Uncensored Journal of the University of Alabama (Volume 3 - 1901 through 1926) by David M. Battles Pdf

The University of Alabama (UA) is one of the most prominent universities in the US. Volume One of this series explored UA’s birth, formative years, its burning by Union soldiers, and its rebirth in 1871. Volume Two noted the adolescent years of the school, rebellion by the students against the military system of government, the rise of a student culture via the admission of women, and a nascent men’s sports program. This third volume explores rising enrollment and a new style of student governance. The book investigates how UA dealt with student smoking, cursing, and hazing. It covers how UA became nationally respected academically, the rise of a successful sports program, the first use of the phrase “Crimson Tide,” the history of the Million Dollar Band and how “Yea, Alabama” became the school fight song, the UA/Auburn rift, and the UA response to WWI and to the women’s rights movement.

Author : Ed McMinn
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-08-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1416567097

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God Bless the Crimson Tide by Ed McMinn Pdf

Nothing In America Is More Exciting Than College Sports! Each weekend, stadiums and gymnasiums across America are fi lled with the sound of the band, the smell of nachos and hot dogs, and the roar of the fans. Sports have become an integral part of American life, and college fans are among the loudest and most faithful. These fans lead the cheers, speak the language, and know the history. They attend as many games as possible and want to know all they can about "their" team. 'Bama fans are no exception: just take a look at their T-shirts, pillows, bumper stickers, banners, screen savers, coffee mugs, blankets, license plates, and ringtones -- all designed to declare their loyalty and cheer on their team. This exciting collection of stories from the many sports played at the University of Alabama is perfect for the Crimson Tide fan who is also a fan of God. Each story, while giving accurate information concerning a sporting event, will also lead you into a moment of refl ection about God and his greatness. Alabama fans will have the best of both worlds. This is the ideal book for the faith-fi lled and faithful Alabama Crimson Tide fan!

Author : Joseph W. Lewis Jr. M.D.
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781665503396

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Amazing Alabama: a Potpourri of Fascinating Facts, Tall Tales and Storied Stories by Joseph W. Lewis Jr. M.D. Pdf

Amazing Alabama: A Potpourri of Fascinating Facts, Tall Tales and Storied Stories chronicles a brief history of the state, famous personages associated with Alabama, a discussion of state firsts, unique occurrences, antiquated laws and other fascinating topics.

Author : Thomas Mattingly,Tom Mattingly
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Education
ISBN : 1588181383

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The University of Tennessee Trivia Book by Thomas Mattingly,Tom Mattingly Pdf

The ultimate college trivia book

Author : Dave Smith,Project Muse
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612345819

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A Civil War Round Table Quiz Book by Dave Smith,Project Muse Pdf

Pit your knowledge of the War Between the States against your friends' and family's claims to expertise with A Civil War Round Table Quiz Book . The book features 117 different quizzes, the subjects ranging from the infamous Dred Scott case to the final surrender at Appomattox Court House. Each quiz has a theme, and the themes have been selected to cover myriad subjects and to lead readers into the lesser-known aspects of the war that they might not otherwise explore. The Hartford (Connecticut) Civil War Round Table even used these quizzes as a key component of their meetings. Civil War expert.

Author : Robert Oliver Mellown
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780817356804

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The University of Alabama by Robert Oliver Mellown Pdf

The University of Alabama: A Guide to the Campusand Its Architecture is a richly illustrated guidebook to the architecture and development of the University of Alabama’s campus as it has evolved over the last two centuries. In 1988 the University of Alabama Press published Robert Oliver Mellown’s The University of Alabama: A Guide to the Campus, a culmination of a decade’s worth of research into both the facts and the legends surrounding the architecture, history, and traditions of the Capstone. Over twenty years later, this new guide brings to light the numerous additions, expansions, and renovations the university has undergone on its spacious grounds in Tuscaloosa. In addition to updated sections devoted to the university’s historic landmarks—such as Foster Auditorium, where “the stand in the schoolhouse door” occurred; Denny Chimes,where the handprints and footprints of famous Tide athletes are memorialized in concrete; and the Gorgas House, which with stood the destruction of Union troops at the end of the Civil War—new sections account for the acquisition of Bryce Hospital’s campus, the expansions at Bryant-Denny Stadium to accommodate the growing Crimson Tide fan base, and the burgeoning student recreation facilities, playing fields, and residential communities. Chapters are arranged into various campus tours for walking or driving—Antebellum, Victorian, Early Twentieth-Century, East Quad, West Quad, Science and Engineering Corridor, Student Life, Bryce, Medical, Southeast, Athletics, and Off Campus. Alumni, prospective students and their parents, new faculty, out-of-state visitors, and foreign dignitaries will all welcome this useful, compact, and colorful guide to one of the most beautiful campuses in the country.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1132 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015066180418

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American Book Publishing Record by Anonim Pdf

Author : David M. Battles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1646694341

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Fascinating Facts about the University of Alabama ¿That You Probably Don't Know! Vol. 1 (1812-1926) by David M. Battles Pdf

Combining the best attributes of a book of history and a book of trivia, Fascinating Facts tells the story of the world-renowned University of Alabama from 1812 through 1926 (thus volume 1). The chronological book includes fascinating information regarding the University of Alabama (UA), from Davy Crockett's fighting in Tuscaloosa in 1812 through the University's football (Crimson Tide) team's first Rose Bowl win in 1926, a feat that plastered UA's name on the front page of almost every newspaper in the nation January 2, 1926.The book includes interesting period information regarding famous and infamous UA graduates; the first snooty plantation boy students; their often baffled Baptist minister presidents; the student versus faculty antics that will often leave the reader laughing; terrible scourges such as plagues and deaths that will cause the reader to weep; tidbits about African Americans, slaves and later servants, at UA; facts about UA becoming a military school for the Confederacy and its subsequent almost total burning to the ground by Union troops; its resurrection during Reconstruction; the slow birth, then burgeoning of student culture; the fight for admission of women; the sacrifices UA made for the Great War (WWI); and resolution of long-believed myths that are still spread in books and across the internet concerning the University (including the correction of the long-held explanations of the origin of the moniker Crimson Tide).Fascinating Facts follows the erratic creation (and sometimes dissolution) of UA organizations; Greek culture; politics; the school's ongoing efforts to upgrade educational offerings to bring it up to Ivy League school standards; the contentious fight between students and faculty regarding student activities such as dancing; as well as individual student and professorial stories that are still hilarious today, and so many other terrific historical and sometimes trivial tales about the University of Alabama that are primarily unknown to the public and to much of academia even today.

Author : Earl H. Tilford
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780817318147

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Turning the Tide by Earl H. Tilford Pdf

Turning the Tide is an institutional and cultural history of a dramatic decade of change at the University of Alabama set against the backdrop of desegregation, the continuing civil rights struggle, and the growing antiwar movement. This book documents the period when a handful of University of Alabama student activists formed an alliance with President Frank A. Rose, his staff, and a small group of progressive-minded professors in order to transform the university during a time of social and political turmoil. Together they engaged in a struggle against Governor George Wallace and a state legislature that reflected the worst aspects of racism in a state where the passage of civil rights legislation in 1964 and 1965 did little to reduce segregation and much to inflame the fears and passions of many white Alabamians. Earl H. Tilford details the origins of the student movement from within the Student Government Association, whose leaders included Ralph Knowles and future governor Don Siegelman, among others; the participation of key members of “The Machine,” the political faction made up of the powerful fraternities and sororities on campus; and the efforts of more radical non-Greek students like Jack Drake, Ed Still, and Sondra Nesmith. Tilford also details the political maneuverings that drove the cause of social change through multiple administrations at the university. Turning the Tide highlights the contributions of university presidents Frank A. Rose and David Mathews, as well as administrators like the dean of men John L. Blackburn, who supported the student leaders but also encouraged them to work within the system rather than against it. Based on archival research, interviews with many of the principal participants, and the author’s personal experiences, Tilford’s Turning the Tide is a compelling portrait of a university in transition during the turbulence surrounding the civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1960s.

Author : Joseph Woodruff
Publisher : Turner
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Football
ISBN : 1596525304

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Historic Photos of University of Alabama Football by Joseph Woodruff Pdf

In 1992, the centennial year of the University of Alabama football program, the Crimson Tide won its 12th national championship. Few major college football programs can claim as many. Through the medium of photography, this book tells the story of the greatness of University of Alabama football, from its origins as a club sport in 1892, through the death of its most famous head coach, Paul W. Bryant. Over the course of those nine decades, Alabama would win 11 of its 12 national championships and forever change the face of college football. What began as a sport dominated by elite teams in the Northeast and Midwest, would, by the time of Bryant's death, be the hallmark sport of the American South. And the University of Alabama would, for many of those years, be the premier team in one of America's greatest football conferences, the Southeast Conference. Historic Photos of University of Alabama Football provides a window into a storied past that is the foundation upon which the program's future greatness will stand.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Almanacs, American
ISBN : UIUC:30112097768003

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The World Almanac and Book of Facts by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gilbert M. Gaul
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780698142916

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Billion-Dollar Ball by Gilbert M. Gaul Pdf

• A Boston Globe Best Book of 2015 • “A penetrating examination of how the elite college football programs have become ‘giant entertainment businesses that happened to do a little education on the side.’”—Mark Kram, The New York Times Two-time Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist Gilbert M. Gaul offers a riveting and sometimes shocking look inside the money culture of college football and how it has come to dominate a surprising number of colleges and universities. Over the past decade college football has not only doubled in size, but its elite programs have become a $2.5-billion-a-year entertainment business, with lavishly paid coaches, lucrative television deals, and corporate sponsors eager to slap their logos on everything from scoreboards to footballs and uniforms. Profit margins among the top football schools range from 60% to 75%—results that dwarf those of such high-profile companies as Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft—yet thanks to the support of their football-mad representatives in Congress, teams aren’t required to pay taxes. In most cases, those windfalls are not passed on to the universities themselves, but flow directly back into their athletic departments. College presidents have been unwilling or powerless to stop a system that has spawned a wildly profligate infrastructure of coaches, trainers, marketing gurus, and a growing cadre of bureaucrats whose sole purpose is to ensure that players remain academically eligible to play. From the University of Oregon’s lavish $42 million academic center for athletes to Alabama coach Nick Saban’s $7 million paycheck—ten times what the school pays its president, and 70 times what a full-time professor there earns—Gaul examines in depth the extraordinary financial model that supports college football and the effect it has had not only on other athletic programs but on academic ones as well. What are the consequences when college football coaches are the highest paid public employees in over half the states in an economically troubled country, or when football players at some schools receive ten times the amount of scholarship awards that academically gifted students do? Billion-Dollar Ball considers these and many other issues in a compelling account of how an astonishingly wealthy sports franchise has begun to reframe campus values and distort the fundamental academic mission of our universities.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Bar associations
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063220805

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The Alabama Lawyer by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Carole Marsh Books
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780793373765

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ALABAMA BOOK-in-a-BAG: VOLUME I by Anonim Pdf