<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (December 2008) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> The University of Alabama is a school with many rich and spirited traditions . This article describes several of these traditions . </P> <P> According to a November 25, 1926 article in The Crimson White, football was first introduced at the University of Alabama in 1892 by W.G. Little of Livingston, Alabama, who had been a student at Andover, Massachusetts and "went to the University for the game ." </P> <P> Alabama's first football game was played in Birmingham on Friday afternoon, November 11, 1892, at the old Lakeview Park . Alabama defeated a team composed mostly of high schoolers 56 - 0 . That Saturday, November 12, Alabama played the Birmingham Athletic Club, losing 5 - 4 when Ross, of B.A.C., kicked a 65 - yard field goal . This field goal was a collegiate record at the time . </P>

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