1931 Alabama Crimson Tide football team

1931 Alabama Crimson Tide football
Conference	Southern Conference
1931 record	9–1 (7–1 SoCon)
Head coach	Frank Thomas (1st year)
Captain	Joe Sharpe
Home stadium	Denny Stadium Legion Field Cramton Bowl
Seasons ← 1930 1932 →

1931 Southern Conference football standings
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Tulane $	8	–	0	–	0			11	–	1	–	0
Tennessee	6	–	0	–	1			9	–	0	–	1
Alabama	7	–	1	–	0			9	–	1	–	0
Georgia	6	–	1	–	0			8	–	2	–	0
Maryland	4	–	1	–	1			8	–	1	–	1
Kentucky	4	–	2	–	2			5	–	2	–	2
LSU	3	–	2	–	0			5	–	4	–	0
Duke	3	–	3	–	1			5	–	3	–	2
Auburn	3	–	3	–	0			5	–	3	–	0
Sewanee	3	–	3	–	0			6	–	3	–	1
Vanderbilt	3	–	4	–	0			5	–	4	–	0
North Carolina	2	–	3	–	3			4	–	3	–	3
Washington and Lee	2	–	3	–	0			4	–	5	–	1
Georgia Tech	2	–	4	–	1			2	–	7	–	1
Florida	2	–	4	–	2			2	–	6	–	2
VMI	2	–	4	–	0			3	–	6	–	1
NC State	2	–	4	–	0			3	–	6	–	0
VPI	1	–	4	–	1			3	–	4	–	2
Clemson	1	–	4	–	0			1	–	6	–	2
Ole Miss	1	–	5	–	0			2	–	6	–	1
Virginia	0	–	5	–	1			2	–	6	–	1
Mississippi A&M	0	–	5	–	0			2	–	6	–	0
$ – Conference champion

1 2 3 4 Total Howard 0 0 6 0 6 • Alabama 7 7 14 14 42 Date: September 26 Location: Denny Stadium Tuscaloosa, Alabama Source:

1 2 3 4 Total Ole Miss 0 0 6 0 6 • Alabama 20 14 7 14 55 Date: October 3 Location: Denny Stadium Tuscaloosa, Alabama Source:

1 2 3 4 Total • Alabama 14 20 13 6 53 Mississippi A&M 0 0 0 0 0 Date: October 10 Location: Greer Memorial Field Meridian, Mississippi Source:

Third Saturday in October

1 2 3 4 Total Alabama 0 0 0 0 0 • Tennessee 7 0 6 12 25 Date: October 17 Location: Shields–Watkins Field Knoxville, Tennessee Game attendance: 23,000 Source:

1 2 3 4 Total Sewanee 0 0 0 0 0 • Alabama 13 7 0 13 33 Date: October 24 Location: Legion Field Birmingham, Alabama Game attendance: 5,000 Source:

1 2 3 4 Total Kentucky 0 0 7 0 7 • Alabama 0 0 7 2 9 Date: October 31 Location: Denny Stadium Tuscaloosa, Alabama Game attendance: 10,000 Source:

1 2 3 4 Total Florida 0 0 0 0 0 • Alabama 0 14 14 13 41 Date: November 7 Location: Legion Field Birmingham, Alabama Game attendance: 7,000 Source:

1 2 3 4 Total Clemson 7 0 0 0 7 • Alabama 13 20 20 21 74 Date: November 14 Location: Cramton Bowl Montgomery, Alabama Source:

The 1931 Alabama Crimson Tide football team (variously "Alabama", "UA" or "Bama") represented the University of Alabama in the 1931 college football season. It was the Crimson Tide's 38th overall and 10th season as a member of the Southern Conference (SoCon). The team was led by head coach Frank Thomas, in his first 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 record of nine wins and one loss (9–1 overall, 7–1 in the SoCon).

The Crimson Tide won the Southern Conference championship, the 1931 Rose Bowl and a share of the national championship in Wallace Wade's final year at Alabama. The Crimson Tide lost all of the starters from their 10–0 1930 team except for Johnny Cain, but still played almost as well. With Frank Thomas hired as Wade's successor, Alabama won their first three games of the 1931 season against Howard, Ole Miss and Mississippi A&M before they suffered their only loss of the season against Tennessee. The Crimson Tide responded from the loss to win their final five regular season games against Sewanee, Kentucky, Florida, Clemson and Vanderbilt. Alabama then competed in a pair of charity games scheduled in early November to follow the regular season finale against Vanderbilt. In these two games, the Crimson Tide defeated Chattanooga and then three separate Washington, D.C. schools in an exhibition that featured an all-star collection of former Crimson Tide players.

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