Third Saturday in October: The Game-by-Game Story of the South's Most Intense Football Rivalry
Al Browning
The football teams of the University of Tennessee and the University of Alabama first locked horns on November 18, 1901. At the end of the game, the score was tied, nothing had been resolved, and fist-fights broke out as about two thousand fans spilled onto the field at Tuscaloosa.
Since that day, the annual game between those schools has become one of the premier football rivalries in the nation. To many of the faithful, it is more than a game — it's a war. The intensity with which these contests are waged makes victory as satisfying as the warm crimson and orange leaves that dance in Knoxville's cool Smoky Mountain breezes or as soothing as a pregame gathering of fans under a clear blue, sun-kissed sky on the campus quadrangle in Tuscaloosa.
Beginning in 1928, the game was played on the third Saturday in October, and enough heroes have emerges over the decades to fill several books. Third Saturday in October tells the story of each of those games. Filled with recollections of the players, coaches, reporters, sportscasters, and fans who attend the games, this is the definitive guide to one of the South's most vaunted football rivalries.
"You found out what kind of a person you were when played against Tennessee." —Paul "Bear" Bryant
"You never know about a football player until he has played against Alabama." —Gen. Robert R. Neyland
| AL BROWNING, president of Five-Points South Productions, covered University of Alabama football for ten years for the Tuscaloosa News and also was a sports columnist for the Knoxville News-Sentinel. He was author of eight books, including I Remember Paul “Bear” Bryant and Bowl, Bama, Bowl. |
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ISBN-10: 1-58182-217-0 (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 978-1-58182-217-5 (Paperback)
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