Alabama Crimson Tide

Crimson Tide is the name of athletic teams at The University of Alabama. The school fields teams in 11 varsity sports in the NCAA's Division I and is a member of the competitive Southeastern Conference The school's athletic teams compete at the highest level. Athletic facilities on campus include the 92,138-seat Bryant-Denny Stadium, and the 15,043-seat Coleman Coliseum.

Throughout the decades the Alabama-Tennessee game has many times seen the two best teams in the SEC rutted against one another. The game has been title as "Third Saturday in October."

Football:
The football team recently played in its 54th bowl game, more than any other college team has. 17 hall-of-famers and 91 All-Americans honored 101 times. The first All-American from Alabama was W.T. "Bully" VandeGraaff who made the team in 1915.

Alabama quarterbacks won the first three Super Bowls. Notable former Alabama players include Joe Namath, Ken Stabler, Bobby Skelton; Pat Trammell; Steve Sloan; Bart Starr, Johnny Musso and David Bailey.

Bowl Games
Perhaps the most telling sign of the University of Alabama's football legacy is its bowl game history. No team in NCAA history has appeared in more or won more bowl games. The Crimson Tide made its 54th bowl appearance on December 28, 2006 against Oklahoma State University in the Independence Bowl.

Recent history
Since the retirement of Bryant, the team has had eight different head coaches. The Tide won its last national championship in 1992 against the University of Miami Hurricanes.

In 1996, defensive coordinator Mike Dubose was named head coach. The Crimson Tide won the SEC championship in 1999. The Tide lowered 3-8 in a season best exemplified by a last-second loss to Central Florida.

2006 was a "rebuilding year" that ended in a disappointing 6-7 record overall and 2-6 in the SEC. Shula was fired and defensive coordinator Joe Kines was announced as Alabama's interim head coach.

Men's basketball
Alabama's men's basketball program has been eclipsed by football. However, in recent years, the men's basketball program has risen in stature nationally and achieved a No. 1 national ranking briefly in 2002. UA has become a regular conference basketball nominee. The Tide has advanced to postseason play every year for the past six years under head coach and former point guard Mark Gottfried, , concluding with the team's advancement into the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament for the first time in school history in 2004

Women's gymnastics
UA's women's gymnastics team, like the basketball teams, competes in Coleman Coliseum. Coached by Sarah Patterson, the team regularly competes for the NCAA National Championship, having won the NCAA team title in 1988, 1991, 1996, and most recently in 2002. In addition to those 4 titles, the UA team has placed in the top 5 at the NCAA Women's Gymnastics championship 19 of the past 21 years.

Club sports
The University of Alabama through University Recreation also fields a number of club sports of varying degrees of competitiveness, though most compete only with other teams from the southeastern part of the country. The club sports include crew, cricket, cycling, disc golf, ice hockey (www.bamahockey.org), lacrosse, racquetball, rugby, soccer, team handball, tennis, triathlon, Ultimate, wheelchair basketball, water polo, water skiing, and wrestling.

Athletic Academics
Student-athletes who excel in the classroom as well as on the field, Alabama consistently fields them. The University of Alabama is tied for fifth in the nation for the number of Academic-All Americans since 2000 from all Universities. Alabama trails only Nebraska, Notre Dame, and Penn State amongst BCS conference schools in this category.

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The Alabama Crimson Tides play for Division I of NCAA and are part of the Western Division of the Southeaster Conference. The program was placed on the twenty-sixth spot on the list of the best collegiate sports program in the United States in the year 2002. The college has state of the art facilities for their teams, and they have won various championships led by their athletics director, Mal Moore. Their mascot is called Big Al and they have white and crimson as their uniform colors. Their fight song is titled Yea Alabama.

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