Historic Photos of University of Alabama Football
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.
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Book details
- Text by
- Joseph Woodruff
- Imprint
- Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 202
- Formats
- Hardcover
- Series
- Historic Photos
- Subjects
- History › United States › State & Local › South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Sports & Recreation › Football - Topics
- Crimson Tide · college football history · Coach Paul Bryant · black-and-white photography · pictorial history · Southern sports · national championships
- ISBN-13
- 9781684420728
About the author
JOSEPH A. "WOODY" WOODRUFF is an attorney and judge with two books on University of Alabama football. His recent books include Remembering University of Alabama Football and Historic Photos of University of Alabama Football.
Woodruff earned his B.A. and J.D. from the University of Alabama School of Law, where he received the Hugo Black Award and was inducted into the Order of the Coif. He served as a JAG officer in the U.S. Army, retiring at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, and was a partner in the litigation group at Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, LLP before becoming a judge.
When he’s not writing, Woodruff publishes newspaper columns and blogs on college football. That interest in the sport anchors both of his books.
Joseph lives in Franklin, Tennessee.