First Time Ever
The Untold Story of How Auburn First Brought Undefeated Alabama to Jordan-Hare Stadium--and Beat Them
White Rocket Books (Publisher)
Published on 1. November 2023
Book
Hardback
340 pages
978-1-962993-00-5 (ISBN)
Description
Some said it would never happen. On December 2, 1989, it DID happen.
Undefeated and second-ranked Alabama did something they'd sworn they would never, ever do: They came to Auburn to play the Iron Bowl.
How it happened, after years of threats and lawsuits and refusals to even discuss the possibility, is a story as riveting as the game that unfolded on the field that Saturday afternoon.
Van Allen Plexico and John Ringer, co-hosts of the AU Wishbone Podcast, trace the greatest rivalry in football from its dawning in Birmingham to the epic showdown on the Plains.
Along the way, they expose the roots of the animosity between the two universities, the numerous ways Alabama has tried to get its way in every dispute with Auburn--and the consequences when it didn't.
Then they break down the game itself--what happened, play-by-play, how and why--from Tiger Walk to Toomer's Corner, and beyond.
Some said it would never happen. On December 2, 1989, it DID happen. This is the story of that day--possibly the greatest day in Auburn football history--as only the AU Wishbone can tell it.
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Language
English
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
718 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-962993-00-5 (9781962993005)
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Persons
Van Allen Plexico is the author of more than 20 novels--5 of which have won "Best Novel of the Year" awards-- and many novellas, short stories, anthologies and nonfiction books. He and his family can be found somewhere in southern Illinois, probably at one bookstore or another.