Iron Bowl Gold

Iron Bowl Gold  relives the 41 years (1948-1988) of the traditional Iron Bowl at Birmingham's historic Legion Field.  Each game is depicted in an original watercolor painting by renowned...

Iron Bowl Gold  relives the 41 years (1948-1988) of the traditional Iron Bowl at Birmingham's historic Legion Field.  Each game is depicted in an original watercolor painting by renowned...

Alabama 55 | Auburn 0 December 4, 1948 marked the first day that the Alabama Crimson Tide & Auburn Tigers would battle it out on Legion Field to win the sacred Iron Bowl.  Because the two...

Auburn 14 | Alabama 13 As only the second Auburn-Alabama game to be played at Legion Field, the 1949 Iron Bowl continued the revamping of good-hearted tradition amongst the Tide & Tiger players...

Alabama 34 | Auburn 0 Coming back from a defeat the year before, the Crimson Tide blew the Tigers out of the water.  Players Butch Avinger, Ed Salem, Bobby Marlow & Tom Calvin were the "big...

Alabama 25 | Auburn 7 Bobby Marlow, Bobby Wilson & Bimbo Melton were the Crimson stars that shone on December 2, 1951.  “Young Mr. Marlow and his cohort, Wilson, took this background...

Alabama 21 | Auburn 0 Bama did it again.  On November 30, 1952 the “Crimson Elephants stomped to a 21-0 win over the Never-Say-Die Tiger foe.” —Walling Keith, The Birmingham...

Alabama 10 | Auburn 7  The Tigers’ coach Shug Jordan believed the 1953 Iron Bowl game to be the most important ever to date for Auburn.  A lot was on the line as the Cotton Bowl bid...

Auburn 28 | Alabama 0 The last time the Plainsmen won a game against the Alabama Crimson Tide was 1949.  But that changed in the 1954 Iron Bowl when they broke Alabama‘s four year winning...

Auburn 26 | Alabama 0 “For Auburn this is a blue-stakes affair.  There‘s a bowl bid to gain, a SEC championship to win if Mississippi State can handle Ole Miss…For winless...

Auburn 34 | Alabama 7 “The best football team we’ve played this season,” J.B. Whitworth, Bama’s coach, said of the Auburn Tigers.  “You’ve got to give credit...

Auburn 40 | Alabama 0 The Tigers were #1 in the nation and their win against the Tide only authenticated that fact.  The Tide’s Coach J.B. Whitworth agreed saying “They (Auburn)...