1955 Alabama Crimson Tide football team

1955 Alabama Crimson Tide football
Conference	Southeastern Conference
1955 record	0–10 (0–7 SEC)
Head coach	Jennings B. Whitworth (1st year)
Captain	Nick Germanos
Home stadium	Denny Stadium Legion Field Ladd Stadium
Seasons ← 1954 1956 →

1955 SEC football standings
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
#10 Ole Miss $	5	–	1	–	0			10	–	1	–	0
#8 Auburn	5	–	1	–	1			8	–	2	–	1
#7 Georgia Tech	4	–	1	–	1			9	–	1	–	1
Tennessee	3	–	2	–	1			6	–	3	–	1
Vanderbilt	4	–	3	–	0			8	–	3	–	0
Mississippi State	4	–	4	–	0			6	–	4	–	0
Kentucky	3	–	3	–	1			6	–	3	–	1
Tulane	3	–	3	–	1			5	–	4	–	1
LSU	2	–	3	–	1			3	–	5	–	2
Florida	3	–	5	–	0			4	–	6	–	0
Georgia	2	–	5	–	0			4	–	6	–	0
Alabama	0	–	7	–	0			0	–	10	–	0
$ – Conference champion Rankings from AP Poll

1 2 3 4 Total Alabama 0 0 0 0 0 • #13 Rice 0 0 0 20 20 Date: September 24 Location: Rice Stadium Houston, TX Game attendance: 50,000 Source:

1 2 3 4 Total Alabama 0 6 0 0 6 • Vanderbilt 0 7 7 7 21 Date: October 1 Location: Dudley Field Nashville, TN Game attendance: 27,500 Sources:

1 2 3 4 Total • #8 TCU 0 0 14 7 21 Alabama 0 0 0 0 0 Date: October 8 Location: Denny Stadium Tuscaloosa, AL Game attendance: 20,000 Source:

Third Saturday in October

1 2 3 4 Total • Tennessee 0 7 0 13 20 Alabama 0 0 0 0 0 Date: October 15 Location: Legion Field Birmingham, AL Game attendance: 35,000 Sources:

1 2 3 4 Total • Mississippi State 6 7 7 6 26 Alabama 0 7 0 0 7 Date: October 22 Location: Denny Stadium Tuscaloosa, AL Game attendance: 28,000 Sources:

1 2 3 4 Total Alabama 0 0 7 7 14 • Georgia 7 7 7 14 35 Date: October 29 Location: Sanford Stadium Athens, GA Game attendance: 29,000 Sources:

1 2 3 4 Total • Tulane 7 0 7 13 27 Alabama 0 7 0 0 7 Date: November 5 Location: Ladd Stadium Mobile, AL Game attendance: 17,301 Sources:

1 2 3 4 Total • #11 Georgia Tech 12 7 0 7 26 Alabama 0 0 0 2 2 Date: November 12 Location: Legion Field Birmingham, AL Game attendance: 38,000 Source:

The 1955 Alabama Crimson Tide football team (variously "Alabama", "UA" or "Bama") represented the University of Alabama in the 1955 college football season. It was the Crimson Tide's 61st overall and 22nd season as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The team was led by head coach Jennings B. Whitworth, in his first year, and played their home games at Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Legion Field in Birmingham and at Ladd Stadium in Mobile, Alabama. They finished with a record of zero wins and ten losses (0–10 overall, 0–7 in the SEC).

On December 2, 1954, Harold Drew resigned as head coach of the Crimson Tide, and Jennings B. Whitworth was introduced as his successor. Whitworth brought a new system that was more oriented towards the running game. As a result, senior quarterback Bart Starr and the other Tide seniors saw little playing time. Whitworth, for his part, was only allowed to hire two assistants and required to retain the rest of Coach Drew's staff.

Alabama football hit rock bottom in 1955, going 0–10, the worst season in school history. It was only the third winless season in the history of the Crimson Tide, the others being the 0–4 teams in 1893 and 1895 when the program was just starting. For the season, Alabama only averaged 4.8 points per game and the opposition averaged 25.6. The Tide was shut out four times, the opposition never scored fewer than 20 points, and the smallest margin of defeat was 15 points in a 21–6 loss to Vanderbilt.

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