re: Pictures from days gone by....

Correct, that's coach Heisman

Auburns 2nd football team of 1892

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Father of spaceship earth, the dymaxion, and the geo dome

Buckmeister Fuller

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Bucky Fuller did a guest lecture when I was in college. Highly entertaining, iconoclastic, funny, thought-provoking.

1893 Auburn football team. They beat bama twice, Vanderbilt once, and tied Sewanee and Georgia Tech. They had two coaches that year, so I'm not sure if that is Balliet, who coached the first game (a win over bama) or Harvey, who coached the rest of the season.

The 1895 Auburn team posing at Piedmont Park in Atlanta. That's Heisman standing in the center of the back row. This team lost to Vandy, beat bama (48-0) and beat Georgia at Piedmont Park. Their game with Sewanee was canceled for some reason.


from Wiki, one of the players remembered this:

The team executed a "hidden ball trick" in the game against Vanderbilt as Auburn seemed to run a revolving wedge. Vanderbilt still won however, 9 to 6; the first time in the history of southern football that a field goal decided a game. "Billy" Williams recalled:

I was playing left half for Auburn and Tichenor was quarterback. We were on Vandy's 15-yard line and had the ball in our possession. Tich passed the ball to me; I raised his jersey and hid the ball under it, at the same time dashing toward our right end, protected by several members of the Auburn team...Vandy thought I had the ball. Tich journeyed around his own left and went over the Vanderbilt's goal line. The first time the Vandy players knew Tich had the ball and had made a touchdown was when they saw him pulling the ball from under his jersey.

Quarterback Reynolds Tichenor described the nature of the play as follows:

"The play was simply this. When the ball was snapped it went to a halfback. The play was closely massed and well screened. The halfback then thrust the ball under the back of my jersey. Then he would crash into the line. After the play I simply trotted away to a touchdown."

The Tigers again used the play against Georgia. Georgia coach Pop Warner later used the trick in 1897 while at Cornell against Penn State; and again and most famously in 1903 while at Carlisle against Harvard, attracting national attention in a close loss.

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Couple of LSU baseball Baws

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Brandon on the left?

1939 Tennessee Vols football team boarding the train to Pasadena and the 1940 Rose Bowl



While traveling to Pasadena by train, the Vols stopped along the way for a practice in Bob Neyland’s boyhood home of Greenville, TX and pictured below at Kidd Field in El Paso