Word: auburns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...came back to me Saturday night as I watched the CBS game of the week--the spectacular showdown between the number one Alabama Crimson Tide and the Auburn Tigers. There were the frenzied Southern fans who had filled Birmingham's Legion Field to its 70,000 capacity--as they always do. They were jubilant, chaotic and totally drunk on the spectacle of Southern football--as they always are. I know, because I've been there...
...most of all, I remembered attending my first Auburn-Alabama game. It was 1964--the year of Joe Namath, Jimmy Sidle and Tucker Fredrickson. All three of them were All Americans. Both teams were ranked in the nation's top 10, the game was sold out months in advance, and scalpers were getting about $75 for a single ticket. So I felt duly honored when my father invited me to accompany him to Legion Field for the occasion...
...rode to Legion Field that Saturday on a chartered bus, since no mortal could have braved the flood of football traffic that always took over downtown Birmingham on Auburn-Alabama day. Our fellow travellers were a wild assortment of banner-waving, horn-blowing, bourbon-swigging Alabama fans. Along the way, the men had cursing battles, sang obscene fight songs, and bet themselves into insolvency over the outcome of the game...
SATURDAY: NCAA Football. National football leader Alabama meets grudge rival Auburn at Birmingham. If you are under the illusion that Harvard and Yale have a real rivalry, you must see this game. CH.5. 6 p.m. Color. Live...
...like Alice in Wonderland grown to womanhood. That was one reason why Jacqueline du Pré emerged as the darling of worldwide concert audiences while still in her early 20s. Another was the graceful and eloquently soulful way she played her cumbersome instrument. Her tone had an auburn glow, her phrasing a masculine power, and her programming showed an equal devotion to old favorites (the Schumann and Saint-Saëns concertos) and interesting esoterica (the Delius concerto). She quickly took a place among the two or three finest cellists in the world...