While scouring the internet for materials to use for my ongoing project focusing on the history of Alabama football, Remember the Rose Bowl, I stumbled across this little gem. It's a Wheaties advertisement featuring Alabama's head coach Frank Thomas that appeared in a 1947 Wonder Woman comic book. From the Blog into Mystery blog.
about 1 year ago
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The add may have appeared
in 1947, but it had to have been created in 1946.
One interesting note, it said that Thomas was the only coach to appear in all 4 bowl games- Rose, Sugar, Cotton, Orange. That was true in 46 and true for decades but I wonder if it is still true today (replacing the Cotton with the Fiesta)? Has any coach been to all 4 of the major bowls? Paterno comes to mind, but I’m not sure.
If Auburn was in New Mexico and we never played them I would still hate them and their dumb coach and their cheating players.
Interesting trivia question
As you mentioned, Paterno has been to all four, and I think he’s the only one to actually win all four. Robert Neyland went to all four, before the Fiesta Bowl replaced the Cotton Bowl. Bob Stoops has been to all four as well.
In thinking about it, you have to realize that there aren’t very many programs outside the Big Ten and Pac-10 that have actually appeared in the Rose Bowl, and most of those appearances occurred before 1946. And even fewer West Coast teams have played in the Sugar Bowl or Cotton Bowl.
Forgot about Neyland going to the Cotton.
And I guess Coach Thomas’ claim to fame did not last that long as Neyland accomplished the feat about 7 years after Thomas.
If Auburn was in New Mexico and we never played them I would still hate them and their dumb coach and their cheating players.
Is Stoops the first coach to lose all four?
/kidding
//butonlyalittle
"High standards come from passion within...." --Coach Nick Saban
by NiceLittleSaturday on Apr 26, 2011 10:15 PM CDT up reply actions
I love this stuff...looking foward to the book!
Bama's Pluck and Grit have Writ Her Name in Crimson Flame
If you go to the blog
you can enlarge.
If Auburn was in New Mexico and we never played them I would still hate them and their dumb coach and their cheating players.
If this isn't hanging up in the Football offices or the Bryant Museam that's a damn shame
because that is awesome
maybe i’m just missing them, but you should really do a fanshot or something when you update the RtRB website, that is some great stuff over there.
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by That Other Dave on Apr 26, 2011 10:43 AM CDT reply actions
Some one could make a small fortune reprinting these things for collectors.
I used to have several of those old Bama posters from the 60s-70s with the pachyderm doing various activites and in the process overwhelming the mascots from rival school. Totally retro.
"It's not the size of the cat in the fight, it's size of the fight in the cat"
"Pep talks... only work when they touch that ember of truth learned the hardest possible way on the field.-Kleph
As an interesting sidenote...
Wonder Woman was the creation of William Moulton Marston, a Harvard-eductaed psychologist who invented the polygraph (anyone remember the magic lasso that could force someone to tell the truth?). Marston lives in a polyamorous relationship with his wife and his girlfriend, and with his children by both. Wonder Woman comics were filled with psychosexual themes, specifically bondage themes (anyone else remember that Wonder Woman lost her powers when her wrists were bound?). Marston’s girlfriend even wore bracelets that looked exactly like Wonder Woman’s power bands.
Thirteen.
Darth Saban dropping knowledge bombs on the RBR faithful
"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty."
-Thomas Jefferson
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