Alabama Crimson Tide Football
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This Alabama football trivia quiz has 98 free questions with answers and runs from the first team in 1892 to the DeBoer era: how the Crimson Tide got its name in a mud-soaked Auburn game, the elephant, the Million Dollar Band and Rammer Jammer, Wallace Wade's Rose Bowl, Bear Bryant's six titles and houndstooth hat, the 1992 upset of Miami, Nick Saban's dynasty and its four Heisman winners, the Kick Six, 2nd-and-26, the Gravedigger, and the players who went on to the NFL. It starts with questions any Tide fan can answer and works up to the ones only people who can name the coaches on the Walk of Champions statues will get. It works as a tailgate game, a Bama family quiz night, or a solo test before the next Iron Bowl. Every answer has been checked against a reference source, and each question shows its explanation and citation once you have answered. Play the full set for a shareable score, then send it to a friend who thinks they know more.
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Q 01What is Alabama's traditional rallying cry?
Roll Tide!
Roll Tide! works far from the stadium too: fans who spot a stranger in Alabama gear use it as a greeting.
Q 02Which Alabama quarterback, benched at half-time of a national title game, later became a Super Bowl MVP?
Jalen Hurts
Jalen Hurts stayed on as the backup, and the next season he came off the bench for an injured Tua Tagovailoa to win the SEC title game against Georgia, the same opponent.
Q 03Alabama's home stadium is named for coach Bear Bryant and which university president?
George H. Denny
George H. Denny, once a college football coach himself, was president when it opened as Denny Stadium in 1929; Alabama's legislature added Bryant's name in 1975, while he was still coaching.
Q 04Alabama's home stadium holds roughly how many fans?
100,000
About 100,000: it opened in 1929 with just 12,000 seats, and a 2010 upper deck in the south end zone pushed it past 101,000 before a later refit trimmed a few seats.
Q 05Sportswriter Hugh Roberts is credited with coining 'Crimson Tide' to describe a 1907 game played in what conditions?
A sea of red mud
A sea of red mud stained Alabama's white jerseys crimson as the underdogs held heavily favoured Auburn to a 6-6 tie.
Q 06Before "Crimson Tide" caught on, headline writers popularised which nickname for the team?
The Thin Red Line
The Thin Red Line. The name gave way in 1907, when a sports editor is said to have hailed the underdogs' 6-6 tie with heavily favoured Auburn as the work of a "Crimson Tide".
Q 07Which word completes the 1930 fan's shout behind Alabama's elephant mascot, "Hold your ___, the elephants are coming"?
Horses
Horses. Alabama had started its second team against Ole Miss, and when the huge first team rumbled on, sportswriter Everett Strupper reported the shout and writers began calling them the Red Elephants.
Q 08Asked after a 33-7 loss in 1922 what Alabama did have, a booster reportedly replied "a million dollar" what?
Band
Band. By the university's account, alumnus Champ Pickens gave that answer to an Atlanta sportswriter after the defeat at Georgia Tech; the musicians had raised their own travel money from local merchants.
Q 09The Elephant Stomp pep rally gathers on the steps of which campus building before marching to the stadium?
Gorgas Library
Gorgas Library. An hour before every home kickoff the musicians fill its steps and play the fight song "Yea Alabama" in a rally that lasts barely ten minutes, then line up and march to the stadium.
Q 10Since 1948, Alabama's team captains have left what in cement at the base of Denny Chimes?
Their hand and footprints
Their hand and footprints. The slabs form a Walk of Fame around the 115-foot bell tower on the Quad, and new captains add theirs during the A-Day spring game festivities.
Q 11Whom did Alabama rout 42-14 for the 2012 national title?
Notre Dame
Notre Dame. The Irish arrived unbeaten and ranked No. 1, but Alabama scored touchdowns on its first three drives and led 28-0 at half-time.
Q 12Alabama's 1926 Rose Bowl win, its first bowl appearance, is remembered by what nickname?
The Game That Changed the South
The Game That Changed the South. Alabama trailed 12-0 at half-time, scored all 20 of its points in the third quarter and held on to win 20-19 in Pasadena.
Q 13Which film character's blazing speed earns him an Alabama scholarship and All-American honours as a kick returner under Bear Bryant?
Forrest Gump
Q 21Which quarterback did Bear Bryant call the greatest athlete he ever coached?
Joe Namath
Joe Namath. He led Alabama's 1964 title team, signed with the New York Jets for a then-record $427,000 and later guaranteed their Super Bowl III upset.
Q 22Alabama's 42-21 home loss to which team in 1970 is widely credited with hastening the integration of Southern football?
USC
USC. Black players scored all six Trojan touchdowns against an all-white Alabama team, two of them by Sam Cunningham, in a season opener that Bear Bryant had helped to schedule.
Q 23Auburn coach Shug Jordan is credited with the name "Iron Bowl", a nod to the main industry of which host city?
Birmingham
Forrest Gump. The novel's author, Winston Groom, graduated from Alabama in 1965 and later wrote an illustrated history of Crimson Tide football.
Q 14Which coach, whose name is now on Duke's stadium, led Alabama to the 1926 Rose Bowl and its first national titles?
Wallace Wade
Wallace Wade. He had lost the 1916 Rose Bowl as a guard for Brown, then took Alabama to Pasadena three times without a defeat before leaving for Duke.
Q 15How did Paul Bryant earn his famous nickname?
He wrestled a bear at a carnival aged 13
He wrestled a bear at a carnival aged 13, in Fordyce, Arkansas, after a promoter offered a dollar to anyone who would try. By his own account he was never paid.
Q 16What pattern was Bear Bryant's trademark hat?
Houndstooth
Houndstooth. He wore the black-and-white check on the sidelines, and fans still turn out in the pattern on game days in his honour.
Q 17Which top-ranked team did Alabama stop inches short on a goal-line stand in the 1979 Sugar Bowl?
Penn State
Penn State. Barry Krauss met Mike Guman on fourth-and-goal to protect a 14-7 win over the No. 1 team, which gave Bear Bryant the fifth of his six national titles at Alabama.
Q 18Asked why he left Texas A&M for Alabama in 1958, Bryant famously said who had called?
Mama
Mama. "When Mama calls, you just have to come runnin'," he said of his alma mater, where he had played end on the unbeaten 1934 team.
Q 19Which hit by the country group Alabama do Crimson Tide fans sing along to heading into the fourth quarter of home games?
Dixieland Delight
Dixieland Delight. The university dropped the song for about three years over the crowd's rowdy add-on chants, then brought it back for homecoming in October 2018.
Q 20Bear Bryant died four weeks after coaching his last game in which bowl?
Liberty Bowl
Liberty Bowl. Alabama intercepted seven Illinois passes in Memphis to send Bryant into retirement with a 21-15 win, and he died of a heart attack on January 26, 1983.
Birmingham. The South's iron and steel capital hosted the game at Legion Field for decades, until Auburn took its home dates to campus in 1989 and Alabama followed in 2000.
Q 24Auburn's Chris Davis won the 2013 Iron Bowl on the final play by returning what for a touchdown?
A missed field goal
A missed field goal. Alabama had argued for one second to be put back so it could try a 57-yard kick, which fell short, and Davis ran it back the length of the field for a 34-28 Auburn win.
Q 25Van Tiffin's 52-yard field goal that won the 1985 Iron Bowl at the buzzer is known simply as what?
The Kick
The Kick. Auburn led 23-22 with under a minute left, after the lead had changed hands four times in the fourth quarter, and Tiffin's kick as time ran out won it 25-23.
Q 26"Punt Bama Punt" recalls how Auburn stunned unbeaten Alabama late in 1972 by doing what?
Blocked two kicks for touchdowns
Blocked two kicks for touchdowns. Bill Newton blocked both punts and David Langner ran each one back in the fourth quarter, turning a 16-3 deficit into a 17-16 Auburn win.
Q 27Alabama's rivalry game with Tennessee is traditionally called what?
The Third Saturday in October
The Third Saturday in October. The name marks the game's traditional date, and the winners light victory cigars in the locker room, a decades-old custom that technically breaks NCAA rules.
Q 28After beating Alabama in 2022, Tennessee fans dumped a goalpost where?
The river
The river. Tennessee won 52-49 on a last-play field goal to end 15 straight losses to Alabama, and fans tore the goalposts down and carried one out of Neyland Stadium to the Tennessee River.
Q 29Alabama's 1992 national title came in the Sugar Bowl with a 34-13 upset of which team?
Miami
Miami. The Hurricanes had won 29 straight, but Alabama intercepted their Heisman-winning quarterback Gino Torretta three times and ran one of them back for a touchdown.
Q 30Which coach was dismissed by Alabama in 2003 before ever coaching a game?
Mike Price
Mike Price. Alabama fired him for off-field misconduct in May 2003, about five months after hiring him, and former Tide quarterback Mike Shula took the job instead.