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1930 Alabama Crimson Tide football team

1930 Alabama Crimson Tide football
National champion (QPRS, CFRA, Sagarin)
Co-national champion (Davis)
Rose Bowl champion
SoCon co-champion
Rose Bowl, W 24–0 vs. Washington State
Conference Southern Conference
1930 record 10–0 (8–0 SoCon)
Head coach Wallace Wade (8th year)
Offensive scheme Single-wing
Captain Foots Clement
Home stadium Denny Stadium
Legion Field
Cramton Bowl
Uniform
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Seasons
← 1929
1931 →
1930 Southern Conference football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Alabama + 8 – 0 – 0     10 – 0 – 0
Tulane + 5 – 0 – 0     8 – 1 – 0
Tennessee 6 – 1 – 0     9 – 1 – 0
Duke 4 – 1 – 1     8 – 1 – 2
Vanderbilt 5 – 2 – 0     8 – 2 – 0
Maryland 4 – 2 – 0     7 – 5 – 0
Florida 4 – 2 – 1     6 – 3 – 1
North Carolina 4 – 2 – 2     5 – 3 – 2
Clemson 3 – 2 – 0     8 – 2 – 0
Georgia 3 – 2 – 1     7 – 2 – 1
Kentucky 4 – 3 – 0     5 – 3 – 0
South Carolina 4 – 3 – 0     6 – 4 – 0
VPI 2 – 3 – 1     5 – 3 – 1
Mississippi A&M 2 – 3 – 0     2 – 7 – 0
Georgia Tech 2 – 4 – 1     2 – 6 – 1
LSU 2 – 4 – 0     2 – 6 – 1
Virginia 2 – 5 – 0     4 – 6 – 0
Sewanee 1 – 4 – 0     3 – 6 – 1
NC State 1 – 5 – 0     2 – 8 – 0
Ole Miss 1 – 5 – 0     3 – 5 – 1
Auburn 1 – 6 – 0     3 – 7 – 0
Washington and Lee 0 – 4 – 1     3 – 6 – 1
VMI 0 – 5 – 0     3 – 6 – 0
  • + – Conference co-champions
1 2 3 4 Total
Howard 0 0 0 0 0
• Alabama 0 34 0 9 43
  • Source:
1 2 3 4 Total
Ole Miss 0 0 0 0 0
• Alabama 6 13 13 32 64
  • Date: October 4
  • Location: Denny Stadium
    Tuscaloosa, Alabama
  • Source:
1 2 3 4 Total
Sewanee 0 0 0 0 0
• Alabama 0 6 0 19 25
  • Source:
Third Saturday in October
1 2 3 4 Total
Tennessee 0 0 0 6 6
• Alabama 0 12 6 0 18
  • Date: October 18
  • Location: Denny Stadium
    Tuscaloosa, Alabama
  • Game attendance: 18,000
  • Referee: Everett Strupper
  • Source:
1 2 3 4 Total
Vanderbilt 0 0 7 0 7
• Alabama 0 6 6 0 12
  • Date: October 25
  • Location: Legion Field
    Birmingham, Alabama
  • Game attendance: 20,000
  • Source:
1 2 3 4 Total
• Alabama 6 0 0 13 19
Kentucky 0 0 0 0 0
  • Source:
1 2 3 4 Total
• Alabama 0 6 0 14 20
Florida 0 0 0 0 0
  • Source:
1 2 3 4 Total
LSU 0 0 0 0 0
• Alabama 14 13 6 0 33
  • Source:

The 1930 Alabama Crimson Tide football team (variously "Alabama", "UA" or "Bama") represented the University of Alabama in the 1930 college football season. It was the Crimson Tide's 37th overall and 9th season as a member of the Southern Conference (SoCon). The team was led by head coach Wallace Wade, in his eighth year, and played their home games at Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, at Legion Field in Birmingham, and at the Cramton Bowl in Montgomery, Alabama. They finished the season with a perfect record (10–0 overall, 8–0 in the SoCon), as Southern Conference champions and as national champions after they defeated Washington State in the Rose Bowl.

In April 1930, coach Wade announced his resignation effective at the end of the 1930 season, and his last Alabama team might have been his best. For psychological effect, Wade routinely started games with his second team, and the backups never allowed a point. The first team defense only allowed the opposition to score 13 points over the course of the season en route to a 9–0 record. Only the Vanderbilt game was close, as the Commodores scored a late touchdown that cut Alabama's lead to five in their 12–7 loss. Vanderbilt's touchdown and a touchdown scored by Tennessee accounted for all of the scoring by Alabama's opponents in 1930.

Alabama received its third Rose Bowl invitation in six seasons, this time against the also undefeated Cougars of Washington State. In the game, Wade started his second team. Once again, the second team did not allow any points and neither did the first team in their 24–0 victory. The win clinched the second perfect season in school history after 1925, and the Crimson Tide claimed the 1930 national championship along with the Notre Dame Fighting Irish.


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