1940 Tennessee vs Alabama

[Old Coach]

These pictures are from a game played between Tennessee and Alabama as part of my Best of 1940 College League. The lineups for both teams are mixture of players from about 1935 up through 1946. The teams are setup to reflect them as they were in around 1946 or so. The have strong defenses and Alabama with Harry Gilmer at QB is more of passing team while Tennessee is more of a running team. That's is true to the way the teams were at that time. I'm a University of Tennessee gradiate so I have orange blood in my veins but I also am an Alabama fan. I like them ALMOST as much as Tennessee. So playing this game was FUN!! An interesting thing here is that in 1938, UT beat Alabama 13-0. I don't have any stats from game. In 1946 UT beat Alabama 12-0 and I and Harry Gilmer completed 12 of 38 passes for about 170 yards in that game. In my game, Gilmer was 15 of 34 for 209 yards. I'd say that was close enough to say I got a realistic result.

Since I'm having to put several posts together on this thread to show all the pictures, I'm including part of the box score below.

1940 College League
1 2 3 4 F
Alabama 00 00 00 00 00
Tennessee 00 06 07 00 13

ALA TENN
1st Downs 12 15
Rushing 58 222
Passing 209 71
Net Yards 267 293
Penalties 1/05 4/25
Total Plays 63 63

Rushing
Att/Yds 26/58 50/222
Avg Gain 2.2 4.4
Fumbles/Lost 03/03 04/03

Passing
Comp/Att/INT 15/34/1 5/13/0
Yards 209 71
Avg Gain 13.9 14.2
Avg Per Att 6.1 5.5
Sacks Against 3 0

Kicking
Punts 9/330 7/289
Field Goals 0 of 0 0 of 0

POSSESSION 20:12 27:48

More to follow.

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[Old Coach]

A few more pictures and individual stats:
Individual Offense

Passing:
ALA -- GILMER 15-34, 209 YDS, 0 TD, 1 INT, 6.1YPA, 52.2R
TENN -- PROCTOR 1-6, 13 YDS, 0 TD, 0 INT, 2.2YPA, 39.6R
CAFEGO 4-7, 58 YDS, 0 TD, 0 INT, 8.3YPA, 84.2R

Receiving:
ALA -- MALONE 1-5 0 TD, BROWN 2-22 0 TD, HUTSON 7-61 0 TD, RANAGER 1-11 0 TD,
BRYANT 6-110 0 TD
TENN -- POWELL 1-13 0 TD, HUBBELL 4-58 0 TD,

Rushing:
ALA -- WILSON 1-5 0 TD, BROWN 5-18 0 TD, NELSON 10-31 0 TD, HOWELL 1-3 0 TD,
GILMER 9-1 0 TD
TENN -- STEPHENS 8-22 0 TD, CAFEGO 24-70 0 TD, COFFMAN 14-73 1 TD,
FOXX 3-58 1 TD, POWELL 1--1 0 TD,


As you can see from the stats above that Gilmer and Cafego were stars in the game. They both turned it over once; Gilmer an interception and Cafego a fumble. You'll notice that Foxx for UT has a great yards/carry. He's a wingback and he got his yards and his TD running the WB reverse. For the Tide, a gentleman by the name of Paul Bryant caught 6 passes for 110 yards. Perhaps you've heard of him.

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[Old Coach]

More pictures and the scoring summary:

---- SCORING SUMMARY ----
01:27 2ND: TENN TD FOXX ON A 20 RUN, kick failed
04:40 3RD: TENN TD COFFMAN ON A 14 RUN, WYATT Kick

Old Coach

[Old Coach]

#35 in the previous set of pictures is that Paul Bryant fellow I was teling you about.

Last set of pictures.

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[Old Coach]

And one other thing. When I get started I don't know when to stop, but here player photos of some stars of the game:

Photo 1- Me, I play corner on defense and I had 6 tackles in the game. (I'm a badass!)
Photo 2- Dixie Howell of Alabama.
Photo 3- George Cafego
Photo 4- Harry Gilmer
Photo 5- Paul Bryant
Photo 6- Buster Stephens

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[Old Coach]

Can't help it! One more set of pictures. That finally clears out the folder. I'm using the Coliseum Stadium with modifications to some of the BMP's. If this stadium could be modified to include a scoreboard where the columns are, it would be great. I block out the columns by coloring them with 255-0-255 transparent pink.

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[Frido1207]

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Photo 1- Me, I play corner on defense and I had 6 tackles in the game. (I'm a badass!)

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Come on Old Coach.
Now we wanna see a pic showing you in action. [;)]

[BigSmooth]

I like the way the crowd looks in that stadium. Great stuff!

[Old Coach]

Here's the cheerleaders, the band and 2 of the crowd BMP's

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