1958 Alabama Crimson Tide football team

1958 Alabama Crimson Tide football
Conference	Southeastern Conference
1958 record	5–4–1 (3–4–1 SEC)
Head coach	Bear Bryant (1st year)
Captain	Dave Sington
Captain	Bobby Smith
Home stadium	Denny Stadium Legion Field Ladd Stadium
Seasons ← 1957 1959 →

1958 SEC football standings
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
#1 LSU $	6	–	0	–	0			11	–	0	–	0
#4 Auburn	6	–	0	–	1			9	–	0	–	1
#11 Ole Miss	4	–	2	–	0			9	–	2	–	0
Vanderbilt	2	–	1	–	3			5	–	2	–	3
Tennessee	4	–	3	–	0			4	–	6	–	0
Alabama	3	–	4	–	1			5	–	4	–	1
Kentucky	3	–	4	–	1			5	–	4	–	1
#14 Florida	2	–	3	–	1			6	–	4	–	1
Georgia Tech	2	–	3	–	1			5	–	4	–	1
Georgia	2	–	4	–	0			4	–	6	–	0
Tulane	1	–	5	–	0			3	–	7	–	0
Mississippi State	1	–	6	–	0			3	–	6	–	0
$ – Conference champion Rankings from AP Poll

1 2 3 4 Total • #15 LSU 0 0 7 6 13 Alabama 0 3 0 0 3 Date: September 27 Location: Ladd Stadium Mobile, AL Game attendance: 34,000 Source:

1 2 3 4 Total #20 Vanderbilt 0 0 0 0 0 Alabama 0 0 0 0 0 Date: October 4 Location: Legion Field Birmingham, AL Game attendance: 36,000 Sources:

1 2 3 4 Total Furman 0 0 6 0 6 • Alabama 20 3 6 0 29 Date: October 11 Location: Denny Stadium Tuscaloosa, AL Game attendance: 17,000 Sources:

Third Saturday in October

1 2 3 4 Total Alabama 0 0 0 7 7 • Tennessee 0 7 7 0 14 Date: October 18 Location: Shields-Watkins Field Knoxville, TN Game attendance: 34,200 Sources:

1 2 3 4 Total • Alabama 3 0 6 0 9 #19 Mississippi State 0 0 0 7 7 Date: October 25 Location: Scott Field Starkville, MS Sources:

1 2 3 4 Total Georgia 0 0 0 0 0 • Alabama 6 0 0 6 12 Date: November 1 Location: Denny Stadium Tuscaloosa, AL Game attendance: 28,500 Sources:

1 2 3 4 Total Alabama 0 0 0 7 7 • Tulane 6 0 7 0 13 Date: November 7 Location: Tulane Stadium New Orleans, LA Game attendance: 34,000 Sources:

1 2 3 4 Total • Alabama 17 0 0 0 17 #20 Georgia Tech 0 0 8 0 8 Date: November 15 Location: Grant Field Atlanta, GA Game attendance: 44,726 Sources:

The 1958 Alabama Crimson Tide football team (variously "Alabama", "UA" or "Bama") represented the University of Alabama in the 1958 college football season. It was the Crimson Tide's 64th overall and 25th season as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The team was led by head coach Bear Bryant, 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 five wins, four losses and one tie (5–4–1 overall, 3–4–1 in the SEC). As they finished the season above .500, Alabama secured its first winning season since 1953, and their five victories gave Bryant more wins games in one season than former head coach Jennings B. Whitworth did in previous three.

On December 3, 1957, the University formally introduced then Texas A&M head coach and former Crimson Tide player Bear Bryant as the new head coach of the Crimson Tide. In the season opener, Bama led future national champion LSU 3–0 at the half before they lost 13–3, and the next week played a ranked Vanderbilt team to a scoreless tie. In their third game, the Crimson Tide defeated Furman for the first victory of the Bryant era. After a loss at Tennessee, Alabama then defeated then No. 19 Mississippi State for their first victory over a ranked team since 1953 and followed that with a win over Georgia on homecoming.

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