... 1892. The year doesn’t mean much to most people; in the state of Alabama however, it means everything. This was the year that the University of Alabama christened its first football team. William G. Little, a law student at UA, began to teach other students the sport that he had learned in Andover, Massachusetts; and later that year, formed a team of 19 players led by Coach E.B. Beaumont. 

180 miles to the southeast, as fate would have it, another team was beginning to take shape. The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama, now Auburn University, was led by George Petrie.   The two schools met for the fi...

Read Complete Article at Bleacher Report - College Football