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14 unusual facts about University of Alabama


Alabama State Route 69

Northbound I-359 and SR-69 are co-routed with southbound US-11 until they junction with US-43 near the campus of the University of Alabama south of downtown Tuscaloosa.

Allan Blair

Allan Walker Blair (1900 – 1947) was a professor at the University of Alabama's medical school who is best known for allowing himself to be bitten by a black widow spider in order to investigate the toxicity of its venom in humans.

B. K. Goyal

Goyal is a visiting professor of cardiology at the University of Alabama, in USA and visiting cardiologist to the Oschner Heart Institute, New Orleans.

Herbert Randall

He and Bobs Tusa, the archivist at USM, wrote Faces of Freedom Summer, which was published by the University of Alabama Press in 2001.

Invisible Life

The story starts in the 1980s: he's in his senior year at the University of Alabama, he has the perfect life.

Jacking In to the Matrix Franchise: Cultural Reception and Interpretation

It was published by Continuum Press in 2004 and edited by Matthew Kapell (later publishing as Matthew Wilhelm Kapell), anthropological historian, and William G. Doty, professor emeritus of religious studies and religion at the University of Alabama.

Jake and Steve Show

The Jake and Steve Show is a morning radio show hosted by Jake Bennett and Steve Cummings on WVUA-FM 90.7 The Capstone at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Marcin Maliński

In 1997 he returned to the US to study in a college at Fort Pierce, Florida, and then at the University of Alabama.

Millard Fuller

Fuller majored in economics at Auburn University (’57) and received a law degree from the University of Alabama (’60).

Pellín Rodríguez

Before he died, he had the pleasure of witnessing the graduation of his first born, Pedro Rodriguez, who earned a Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Alabama while working in NASA.

Robert Marve

After originally committing to the University of Alabama following his senior season, Marve changed his commitment to Miami.

Russell T. McCutcheon

He is a professor and was department chair from 2001-2009 at the University of Alabama.

St Luke's Hospital, Singapore

This new therapy was developed by Dr Edward Taub of the Taub Clinic at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital, United States.

Ted Roof

Roof began his coaching career as a graduate assistant coach at the University of Alabama in 1987, where he helped on defense before taking his first full-time position as the linebackers coach at the University of West Georgia for the 1989 season.


Al Stubblefield

Al Stubblefield holds a Master of Science degree from the University of Alabama in Birmingham, Alabama, and earned his bachelor's degree from Mississippi College in Clinton, Mississippi.

Andrew Owusu

Andrew attended the Presbyterian Boys' Secondary School (Presec Legon) and the University of Alabama, where he was an 8-time All-American with the Alabama Crimson Tide's Track and Field Team, competing in the long jump and triple jump.

Bei Dao

He has taught and lectured at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Beloit College, Wisconsin, and is Professor of Humanities in the Center for East Asian Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Bill Hefner

He attended the University of Alabama, and he became the president and owner of radio station WRKB in Kannapolis, North Carolina.

Bluegrass 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.

C. M. Newton

In 1968 legendary football coach and athletic director Paul "Bear" Bryant, who had been the coach for the University of Kentucky's football team during Newton's playing days, called Rupp looking for someone to turn around the University of Alabama's basketball program.

Citizens for the Republic

Hillyer is a Republican candidate in Alabama's 1st congressional district special election, 2013 to succeed Jo Bonner, who resigned in August to take a position as vice chancellor with the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa.

Concrete canoe

Typically, frontrunners include University of Alabama, Huntsville, University of Nevada, Reno, University of Florida, California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, the University of California at Berkeley, Clemson University, École de technologie supérieure, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Coonass

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.

Debbie Elliott

She attended graduate school at the University of Alabama, where she worked for WUAL-FM radio (which later joined other stations in forming Alabama Public Radio).

Derek Pegues

Pegues attended the same high school as Rudd, South Panola, which also produced current Pittsburgh Steelers starting Cornerback Deshea Townsend, Rudd's teammate in high school and college, at the University of Alabama.

Hazel Brannon Smith

Graduating from the University of Alabama in 1935 with a B.A. in Journalism, she went to Durant, Mississippi and bought the failing Durant News, making it such a success by 1943 that she purchased the Lexington Advertiser in the neighboring town of Lexington, Mississippi.

Holt Rast

Rast played End for coach Frank Thomas at the University of Alabama from 1939 to 1941.

Jason McAddley

He played his high school football at Oak Ridge High School in Oak Ridge, Tennessee and went to the University of Alabama.

Joe Kines

He spent most of his coaching career as an assistant in college football ranks, twice serving as an interim head coach: in 1992 at the University of Arkansas after the firing of Jack Crowe and in 2006 at the University of Alabama after the dismissal of Mike Shula.

Logan Young

During the 2000 season, an assistant football coach at Trezevant High School in Memphis claimed that Young had paid Lynn Lang, the Trezevant head football coach, approximately $150,000 to encourage defensive lineman Albert Means to sign with Alabama.

Logan Young (1940–2006) was a Memphis, Tennessee businessman and a booster for the University of Alabama football program.

Luke Sewell

Born in the rural town of Titus, Alabama, Sewell grew up wanting to play baseball, and graduated from the University of Alabama where, he played for the Alabama Crimson Tide baseball team as an infielder.

Mike Guman

He is well remembered by college football fans for being on the receiving end of a goal line hit by University of Alabama linebacker Barry Krauss, in the Sugar Bowl on January 1, 1979, (ranked the Greatest Bowl Game Ever by ESPN in 2002) determining the NCAA national football champion.

Paul Bryant Bridge

In January 2003, then Governor Don Siegleman ordered state transportation director Paul Bowlin to name the bridge in honor of long-time University of Alabama head football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant.

Paul Finebaum

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.

Reggie King

Born in Birmingham, Alabama, he was a 6'6" and 225 lb forward and played college basketball at the University of Alabama. He had a career in the NBA from 1979 to 1985. King's nickname in college was "the Mule.

Regions Charity Classic

With the loss of the annual Iron Bowl college football game between Alabama and Auburn, which was formerly played at Birmingham's Legion Field, the golf tournament has become Metro Birmingham's largest sporting event.

Spain Park High School

The Dance program attends the UDA Camp each year at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa and performed at the 2009 Sugar Bowl between the University of Alabama and the University of Utah along with hundreds of other dancers from all over the Southeast.

Sportz Blitz

The show focuses on Alabama high school and college sports, specifically Auburn University and the University of Alabama.

The Five Cities of June

In the Vatican, the election and coronation of Pope Paul VI; in the Soviet Union, the launch of a Soviet rocket as part of the Space Race with the United States; in South Vietnam, fighting between Communists and South Vietnamese soldiers; in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States, the racial integration of the University of Alabama opposed by Governor George Wallace; and in Berlin, President John F. Kennedy's visit to Germany and Rudolph Wilde Platz.

Tuscaloosa Regional Airport

City and airport officials stated their belief that the area was in a different economic picture with the Mercedes-Benz plant located in the city (the only one in North America) and new developments in and around the campus of the University of Alabama, including an expansion to Bryant-Denny Stadium.

Wallace Wade

In 2006, a bronze statue of Wade was erected outside of the University of Alabama's Bryant–Denny Stadium alongside the statues of Frank Thomas, Bear Bryant, Gene Stallings and now Nick Saban, the other head coaches who led Alabama to national championships.

William Harold Albritton III

Born in Andalusia, Alabama, Albritton graduated from Andalusia High School, and received a B.A. from the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa in 1959, and an LL.B.

William Wilson Hudson

He was born in Orange County, Virginia in 1808 and was a professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at the University of Alabama before moving to Columbia, Missouri in 1838.