Other inductees from the 1930 Alabama team include Fred Sington, who went on to play baseball for the Washington Senators, and Frank Howard, who later became famous as the long-time head coach at Clemson University.
However, the decade ended with the hiring of Paul "Bear" Bryant, who would rebuild Alabama football and guide it to its greatest successes.
Highlights of the season included a victory over defending SEC champion Georgia and a 3–0 win over Auburn in the Iron Bowl.
His brother is Brad Smelley, a former football player for the Alabama Crimson Tide currently playing for the Houston Texans.
Logan Young (1940–2006) was a Memphis, Tennessee businessman and a booster for the University of Alabama football program.
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The Razorbacks were selected as national champions by the Football Writers Association of America and the Helms Athletic Foundation as the #1 Alabama Crimson Tide lost their bowl game against the Texas Longhorns in the Orange Bowl.
The bowl organizers' first choices for the game were the University of Kentucky and the University of Alabama, which went 5-4-1 in its first season under Bear Bryant, who previously coached at UK for eight seasons.
University of Alabama head football coach Nick Saban came under fire in early 2007 for using the term while speaking "off the record" to a reporter.
The lawsuit arose from an article in the magazine alleging that Butts and Alabama head coach Bear Bryant had conspired to fix games.
As a sophomore in 2006, Joseph led a resurgence of the Majors' struggling program, under the tutelage of new head coach Mike DuBose, formerly the head coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide.
He also in 1993 broke the story of Antonio Langham, a University of Alabama football player who signed a contract with a sports agent while playing for the school, which led to NCAA probation for the school.
During the 2006 Iron Bowl Game against Alabama, he caught a 22-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Brandon Cox in the third quarter that served as the game-winner for the Auburn Tigers.
His father, Sal Sunseri, is a coach for the Florida State Seminoles football team and his brother, Vinnie Sunseri, plays college football for the Alabama Crimson Tide.
The book explores the phenomenon of sports fandom and chronicles the Alabama Crimson Tide's 1999 season by following the team in an RV, telling the stories of extremely devoted fans he met during the season.