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3 unusual facts about Auburn Tigers


Arthur L. Williams, Jr.

Even though the CFL moved their late-season home games to Sundays so as not to compete directly against Alabama or Auburn, the team's September and October gates were so abysmal that Williams lost anywhere from $4-10 million on the team.

Joanna Atkins

Atkins ran track for the Auburn Tigers where in 2009 she took first place at the NCAA Women's Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships in the 400 meter dash and was Southeastern Conference champion in the same event.

Joanne P. McCallie

While at Auburn, McCallie and the Tigers appeared in two national championship games and made an appearance in the NCAA Elite Eight.


Alexei Puninski

Puninski is also an eighteen-time All-American swimmer, a full-fledged member of the Auburn Tigers, and an international business graduate at the Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama.

Florida Gators football, 1910–19

McCoy's plans were thwarted, however, by a series of injuries and academic ineligibility problems, beginning when the Gators' starting quarterback, Ashley "Rammy" Ramsdell, broke his leg playing baseball against the Auburn Tigers.

Tebuthiuron

In 2010, tebuthiuron was deliberately used in an act of vandalism to poison the live oak trees at Toomer's Corner on the Auburn University campus, following the 2010 Iron Bowl.

WJOX-FM

The station's current line-up features former Alabama Crimson Tide quarterback Jay Barker, former Auburn Tigers and Tennessee Titans place kicker Al Del Greco, and former WZRR air personality Tony Kurre in mornings as "The Opening Drive" and Jim Dunaway, Ryan Brown, and Lance Taylor in middays and afternoons as "The JOX Roundtable".

WTLS

WTLS also has produced the regionally syndicated, In the Trenches, featuring former Alabama Crimson Tide center Roger Shultz and former Auburn Tigers quarterback Stan White.


see also

1976 Auburn Tigers football team

At the end of the 1975 season, Ralph "Shug" Jordan retired after 25 years as head coach of the Auburn Tigers.

Prechae Rodriguez

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.