<P> Two hours before the kickoff of each Auburn home football game, thousands of Auburn fans line Donahue Drive to cheer on the team as they walk from the Auburn Athletic Complex to Jordan--Hare Stadium . The tradition began in the 1960s when groups of kids would walk up the street to greet the team and get autographs . During his tenure, coach Doug Barfield urged fans to come out and support the team, and thousands did, including the person responsible for starting this tradition: Dick Andrews . Today the team, led by the coaches, walks down the hill and into the stadium surrounded by fans who pat them on the back and shake their hands as they walk . To date, the largest Tiger Walk occurred on December 2, 1989, before the first ever home football game against rival Alabama--the Iron Bowl . On that day, an estimated 20,000 fans packed the one block section of road leading to the stadium . According to former athletic director David Housel, Tiger Walk has become "the most copied tradition in all of college football ." </P> <P> The intersection of Magnolia Avenue and College Street in Auburn, which marks the transition from downtown Auburn to the university campus, is known as Toomer's Corner . It is named for businessman and State Senator Sheldon "Shel" Toomer who founded Toomer's Drugs on the corner of Magnolia Avenue and College Street in 1896, and helped to found the Bank of Auburn in 1907 . Toomer's Drugs is a small business on the corner that has been an Auburn landmark for over 130 years . </P> <P> After their planting in 1937, two massive old - growth oak trees hung over the corner . A tradition developed in which, whenever there was cause for celebration in the Auburn community, the trees were festooned with toilet paper . Also known as "rolling the corner" or "rolling Toomer's," the tradition is often said to have begun when Toomer's Drugs had the only telegraph in the city . During away football games, when employees of the local drug store received news of a win, they would throw the ticker tape from the telegraph onto the power lines . The apocryphal ticker tape origins are frequently taught prospective students and incoming freshman in various orientation activities, though there is zero evidence to support the theory . The corner likely first began to be rolled at least semi-regularly in the late 1960s or early 1970s . The massive celebration at Toomer's Corner following Auburn's win in the 1972 Iron Bowl (the so - called "Punt, Bama, Punt" game) is often cited as the first time the corner was rolled; however, by that time fans had been rolling the corner for at least a year . Mainly used as a way to celebrate football victories, the tradition became a way to celebrate anything good that happened involving Auburn . The Student Government Association worked with the City of Auburn to bring pep rallies on the plains back to Toomer's Corner during football season . </P> <P> On January 27, 2011, a caller to the Paul Finebaum Radio Network who identified himself as "Al from Dadeville" claimed to have poisoned the oaks at Toomer's Corner with Spike 80DF, a potent commercial herbicide containing tebuthiuron, after Auburn's defeat of Alabama in the 2010 Iron Bowl . Subsequent soil tests showed high concentrations of the poison around the trees, and experts did not expect them to survive . There was also some concern about the possibility of the poison affecting the groundwater, but, on April 19, 2011, the University announced that tests of the groundwater had determined that it was safe . </P>

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