Labels:bulletin board | chat room | daily | earth | reckoner | sky OCR: The Elephant Story The story of how Alabama became associated with the elephant goes back to the 1930 season when coach Wallace Wade had assembled great foothall team October 1930 sports writer Everett Strupper the Atlanta Journal wrote story Alabama Mississippi game he had witnessed Tuscaloosa four days earlier. Strupper wro te "That Alabama team 1930 typical Wade machine powerful big tough. fast. aggressive, well- -schooled n fundamentals and the hest blocking team for this early the season that have ever seen When those big brutes hit you mean you go down and stay down often for an additional two minutes. Coach Wade started his team that was plenty big and they went right down to their knitting scoring touchdown first quarter against one the best fighting small lines that have seen For ...