image courtesy of the '27 Corolla~ November 12, 1813 marks 200 yrs. since Big Sam's Canoe Fight.
http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cmamcrk4/pkt40.html


From the '26 Corolla:
"The South will outdo itself in welcoming Mack Brown home. It should. He has written DIXIE all over California."- Ed Danforth, THE ATLANTA JOURNAL

"A figure in football that is a flash. Brown could carry a ball through any team on Earth. Great speed, wonderful sidestepping and at the same time that persistent ALABAMA interference. There are few more attractive players."- As We See IT, THE DENVER POST http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmRJSH4Aoxk




From the '26 Corolla:
"Johnny Mack Brown caught our eye for his safety work as well as outstanding performance." - Bill Henry, THE INNOCENT BYSTANDER

"No player has ever delighted a football crowd in all history as did Mack Brown of Alabama as did Mack Brown of Alabama in the Rose Bowl, New Year's Day."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFAxCVAO68M



From the '26 Corolla:
"Johnny Mack Brown is a romantic figure in national football." - Damon Runyon, I.N.S. Writer
"One of the fleetest and quickest backs ever to trod California sod." - See Bee in LOS ANGELES TIMES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vefEXXnVVf4

From the '26 COROLLA ~ "Give a team one Mack Brown and the odds are a hundred to one in that team's favor at once."- Walter May, THE SEATTLE POST http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NYU_62h990

No sign of progress with repairing the Confederate marker in Greenwood.
"THEY WORE THE GRAY. Thy Mighty Deeds In This Brief Period Wrought,YEARS OF OBLIVION SHALL CORRODE IN VAIN" ~ inscription on Greenwood Cemetery's Confederate Marker http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=40392





This painter named John Paul Strain does some pretty kewl Civil War scenes. This one shows THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA CORPS OF CADETS gathering into their formations on the stormy Monday night of April 3, 1865 beside the Little Round House located next to the 70' X 70' Rotunda. The Rotunda was burned by the Yankees on Tuesday, April 4, 1865.The foundation stones of this building are preserved on the walkway in front of the Gorgas Library.The President's Mansion across the Quad is also pictured. One inaccuracy in this painting are the guardhouse drummers. The drum corps consisted of slaves who the University hired from town because they were good musicians. http://www.johnpaulstrain.com/art/alabama-corps-of-cadets.htm