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In the 1930 Alabama-Ole Miss game, Coach Wallace Wade started his
second string in the first quarter. They were still bigger than the
Mississippi first string but Ole Miss was hanging tough. Sports writer
Everett Strupper, of the Atlanta Journal, wrote "At the end of the
(first) quarter, the earth started to tremble, there was a distant
rumble that continued to grow. Some excited fan in the stands
bellowed, 'Hold your horses, the elephants are coming,' and out
stamped this Alabama varsity." Several other writers referred to
the Alabama linemen Red Elephants and the name stuck. That is how
Alabama came to be associated with elephants. Now, the Crimson Tide
mascot is an elephant fittingly named Big Al.
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