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1937 Alabama Crimson Tide football team

1937 Alabama Crimson Tide football
SEC champion
Rose Bowl, L 0–13 vs. California
Conference Southeastern Conference
Ranking
AP No. 4
1937 record 9–1 (6–0 SEC)
Head coach Frank Thomas (7th year)
Captain Leroy Monsky
Home stadium Denny Stadium
Legion Field
Seasons
← 1936
1938 →
1937 SEC football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
#4 Alabama $ 6 – 0 – 0     9 – 1 – 0
#8 LSU 5 – 1 – 0     9 – 2 – 0
Auburn 4 – 1 – 2     6 – 2 – 3
Vanderbilt 4 – 2 – 0     7 – 2 – 0
Mississippi State 3 – 2 – 0     5 – 4 – 1
Georgia Tech 3 – 2 – 1     6 – 3 – 1
Tennessee 4 – 3 – 0     6 – 3 – 1
Florida 3 – 4 – 0     4 – 7 – 0
Tulane 2 – 3 – 1     5 – 4 – 1
Georgia 1 – 2 – 2     6 – 3 – 2
Ole Miss 0 – 4 – 0     4 – 5 – 1
Kentucky 0 – 5 – 0     4 – 6 – 0
Sewanee 0 – 6 – 0     2 – 7 – 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll
1 2 3 4 Total
Howard 0 0 0 0 0
• Alabama 14 14 7 6 41
  • Date: September 25
  • Location: Denny Stadium
    Tuscaloosa, AL
  • Game attendance: 7,500
  • Source:
1 2 3 4 Total
Sewanee 0 0 0 0 0
• Alabama 13 27 13 12 65
  • Date: October 2
  • Location: Legion Field
    Birmingham, AL
  • Game attendance: 7,000
  • Source:
1 2 3 4 Total
South Carolina 0 0 0 0 0
• Alabama 7 6 7 0 20
  • Date: October 9
  • Location: Denny Stadium
    Tuscaloosa, AL
  • Game attendance: 9,000
  • Sources:
Third Saturday in October
1 2 3 4 Total
• Alabama 0 7 7 0 14
Tennessee 0 0 0 7 7
  • Date: October 16
  • Location: Shields-Watkins Field
    Knoxville, TN
  • Game attendance: 25,000
  • Source:
1 2 3 4 Total
• #2 Alabama 0 13 6 0 19
George Washington 0 0 0 0 0
  • Date: October 23
  • Location: Griffith Stadium
    Washington, DC
  • Game attendance: 24,666
  • Source:
1 2 3 4 Total
Kentucky 0 0 0 0 0
• #3 Alabama 6 21 7 7 41
  • Date: October 30
  • Location: Denny Stadium
    Tuscaloosa, AL
  • Game attendance: 13,000
  • Source:
1 2 3 4 Total
• #2 Alabama 0 0 6 3 9
#19 Tulane 6 0 0 0 6
  • Date: November 6
  • Location: Tulane Stadium
    New Orleans, LA
  • Game attendance: 30,000
  • Source:
1 2 3 4 Total
Georgia Tech 0 0 0 0 0
• #3 Alabama 0 0 0 7 7
  • Date: November 13
  • Location: Legion Field
    Birmingham, AL
  • Game attendance: 26,000
  • Source:

The 1937 Alabama Crimson Tide football team (variously "Alabama", "UA" or "Bama") represented the University of Alabama in the 1937 college football season. It was the Crimson Tide's 44th overall and 5th season as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The team was led by head coach Frank Thomas, in his seventh year, and played their home games at Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa and Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama. They finished the season with a record of nine wins and one loss (9–1 overall, 6–0 in the SEC), as SEC champions and with a loss against California in the 1938 Rose Bowl.

The Crimson Tide opened the season with three consecutive shutouts against Howard, Sewanee and South Carolina. In their fourth game, Alabama surrendered their first points of the season on defense in their 14–7 victory over Tennessee. They then shutout their next two opponents, George Washington and Kentucky prior to their game at Tulane. Against the Green Wave, the Crimson Tide won 9–6 on a game-winning fourth-quarter field goal by Hayward Sanford. After their sixth shutout of the season against Georgia Tech, Alabama won their second game of the season on a fourth quarter Sanford field goal against Vanderbilt, and clinched the SEC championship with the win. With their undefeated regular season, Alabama accepted an invitation to play in the 1938 Rose Bowl where they lost 13–0 to California.


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