1961 Alabama Crimson Tide football team

1961 Alabama Crimson Tide football
Consensus national champion Sugar Bowl champion SEC co-champion
Sugar Bowl, W 10–3 vs. Arkansas
Conference	Southeastern Conference
Ranking
Coaches	No. 1
AP	No. 1
1961 record	11–0 (7–0 SEC)
Head coach	Bear Bryant (4th year)
Captain	Billy Neighbors
Captain	Pat Trammell
Home stadium	Denny Stadium Legion Field Ladd Stadium
Seasons ← 1960 1962 →

1961 SEC football standings
	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
#1 Alabama +	7	–	0	–	0	11	–	0	–	0
#4 LSU +	6	–	0	–	0	10	–	1	–	0
#5 Ole Miss	5	–	1	–	0	9	–	2	–	0
#13 Georgia Tech	4	–	3	–	0	7	–	4	–	0
Tennessee	4	–	3	–	0	6	–	4	–	0
Florida	3	–	3	–	0	4	–	5	–	1
Auburn	3	–	4	–	0	6	–	4	–	0
Kentucky	2	–	4	–	0	5	–	5	–	0
Georgia	2	–	5	–	0	3	–	7	–	0
Mississippi State	1	–	5	–	0	5	–	5	–	0
Tulane	1	–	5	–	0	2	–	8	–	0
Vanderbilt	1	–	6	–	0	2	–	8	–	0

+ – Conference co-champions Rankings from AP Poll

	1	2	3	4	Total
• #3 Alabama	3	7	7	15	32
Georgia	0	0	0	6	6

Date: September 23
Location: Sanford Stadium
Athens, Georgia
Game attendance: 44,000

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	1	2	3	4	Total
Tulane	0	0	0	0	0
• #4 Alabama	6	0	0	3	9

Date: September 30
Location: Ladd Stadium
Mobile, Alabama
Game attendance: 33,000

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	1	2	3	4	Total
• #4 Alabama	13	15	7	0	35
Vanderbilt	0	6	0	0	6

Date: October 7
Location: Dudley Field
Nashville, Tennessee
Game attendance: 32,500

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	1	2	3	4	Total
NC State	0	7	0	0	7
• #3 Alabama	0	12	0	14	26

Date: October 14
Location: Denny Stadium
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Game attendance: 30,000

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Third Saturday in October

	1	2	3	4	Total
Tennessee	3	0	0	0	3
• #5 Alabama	14	6	7	7	34

Date: October 21
Location: Legion Field
Birmingham, Alabama
Game attendance: 48,000

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	1	2	3	4	Total
• #4 Alabama	0	10	7	0	17
Houston	0	0	0	0	0

Date: October 28
Location: Rice Stadium
Houston, Texas
Game attendance: 24,000

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	1	2	3	4	Total
Mississippi State	0	0	0	0	0
• #4 Alabama	14	3	0	7	24

Date: November 4
Location: Denny Stadium
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Game attendance: 39,000

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	1	2	3	4	Total
Richmond	0	0	0	0	0
• #2 Alabama	14	20	13	19	66

Date: November 11
Location: Denny Stadium
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Game attendance: 28,000

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The 1961 Alabama Crimson Tide football team (variously "Alabama", "UA" or "Bama") represented the University of Alabama in the 1961 college football season. It was the Crimson Tide's 67th overall and 28th season as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The team was led by head coach Bear Bryant, in his fourth year, and played their home games at Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Legion Field in Birmingham and Ladd Stadium in Mobile, Alabama. They finished season undefeated with eleven wins (11–0 overall, 7–0 in the SEC), with a victory over Arkansas in the Sugar Bowl and as consensus national champions. The 1961 national championship was the first of the six that Bear Bryant would win as head coach of the Crimson Tide.

Alabama opened the season with a win over Georgia on the road in week one, and then defeated Tulane in their home game at Ladd Stadium in week two. After they won their second road game of the season at Vanderbilt, Alabama returned to Tuscaloosa where they defeated NC State in the first Denny Stadium game of the season. The next week, Alabama defeated Tennessee for the first time since the 1954 season in the first Legion Field game of the year.

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