Category Archives: UA Athletics

Support Tide For Tusks

Posted on January 6, 2015 by | Posted in: Amy Hildreth Chen, Blog News, UA Athletics, UA History, University Archives | Leave a comment

By: Amy Chen, CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow The University of Alabama recently created the organization Tide for Tusks to “raise awareness of the threat of extinction for the African Elephant due to ivory poachers.” You can support their campaign by donating, … Continue reading →

New hashtag initiative on Facebook and Twitter

Posted on December 15, 2014 by | Posted in: Amy Hildreth Chen, Ashley Bond, UA Athletics | Leave a comment

By: Amy Chen, CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow If you follow Cool@Hoole’s Facebook and Twitter feeds, you may have noticed a new flurry of activity. Ashley Bond, a graduate student from the School of Library and Information Studies currently working in outreach within the … Continue reading →

The greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread? Alabama Football of Course!

Posted on September 11, 2012 by | Posted in: Jessica Lacher-Feldman, UA Athletics, University Archives | 1 Comment

  This bread-shaped gem is a detail of the official Alabama vs. Sewanee football game, held at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama on October 17, 1925. This item is from our extensive collection of University of Alabama published  materials, ranging … Continue reading →

Fans, Band and Cheers! Roll Tide!

Posted on September 4, 2012 by | Posted in: Jessica Lacher-Feldman, Photograph Collections, UA Athletics | Leave a comment

Well, it’s that time of year again — campus is buzzing with excitement following the season opener of Alabama football vs. Michigan in Cowboy Stadium in Dallas.  This image, from our University of Alabama photographs, and featured in Acumen, shows … Continue reading →

More Vintage Hoop Shots!

Posted on January 31, 2012 by | Posted in: Corolla, Jessica Lacher-Feldman, UA Athletics | Leave a comment

These were too good not to share — part of a little something I’m working on today, here are some University of Alabama basketball action shots and players from the 1940s-60s! Roll Tide!

Vintage Kicks, Vintage Hardwood

Posted on January 31, 2012 by | Posted in: Jessica Lacher-Feldman, Photograph Collections, UA Athletics | 1 Comment

This cool and mysterious photograph is of the feet of the 1964 University of Alabama basketball team, part of the University of Alabama photographs collections. The vintage hardwood is Foster Auditorium, where Men’s basketball played before the days of Coleman … Continue reading →

The Crimson Tide in 1917

Posted on October 20, 2011 by | Posted in: Eugene Allen Smith Collection, Jessica Lacher-Feldman, UA Athletics | Leave a comment

This beautiful image of the Crimson Tide football team from 1917 is taken from a glass negative taken by the Geologist Eugene Allen Smith and is accessible in our digital collections. And while things with regard to football have grown … Continue reading →

Football! Football! Football!: Images from early 20th century Corollas

Posted on September 25, 2009 by | Posted in: Corolla, Jessica Lacher-Feldman, UA Athletics | 1 Comment

From the 1903 Corolla From The 1909 Corolla From The 1901 Corolla From The 1906 Corolla

Provenance Times Two: An Early Gift and the Origins of Crimson and White (o Rosso e Bianco)

Posted on July 30, 2009 by | Posted in: Crimson White, Jessica Lacher-Feldman, Rare Books Collection, UA Athletics | 3 Comments

One of the many projects we are working on at the Hoole Special Collections Library centers around our foreign language rare books. Right now we’re spending some time with the Italian rare books in our collection. One thing we find … Continue reading →

Announcing…. John "Blank" Doe

Posted on August 15, 2008 by | Posted in: Jessica Lacher-Feldman, UA Athletics, University Archives | Leave a comment

This seemingly mundane piece of paper is anything but dull. It is an image of the dummy press release drafted to announce the newly appointed head football coach and director of athletics at The University of Alabama. Scheduled to be … Continue reading →