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| tidefan102 |
Posted - 01/04/2010 : 14:35:19
From The Tuscaloosa News
Riverside Northport Nickname Tigers Stadium Tiger Stadium
Montgomery Tuscaloosa located in Brownsville community. Lights added 1956
Palmetto Lights added 1958
Selma 1958 changed from Tigers to Rams.
Mike Naugher |
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| tidefan102 |
Posted - 01/30/2010 : 12:26:19
In 1955 Central Florence played their first home game since 1936. They resumed their program in 1955 after a 18 year absence and played their 1954 home games in Sheffield.
Mike Naugher |
| svmounties |
Posted - 01/21/2010 : 14:26:49
Now that's interesting and also a good way to have the nickname be part of the surroundings of the area. I doubt there was many tigers in the Glencoe area, lol. It always makes me wonder why teams change their nicknames. I know Leeds used to be known as the Yellow Jackets, and sometime in the past prior to at least the 1970's they changed their name to the Green Wave. I can't see a team choosing Tulane as a program to emulate, and I don't think there's been a Scope plant in Leeds so unlikely there was an accident at one there, so I've wondered why they changed their name as well. Though nowadays, I doubt a coach would have the sole authority to be able to change a school's nickname because he so felt like it. I remember how a former dimwit principal of Shades Valley tried to change our nickname to the Rainbows after there was a brawl following the Mountain Brook game in 1997. This was one of her ways she didn't succeed in getting football de-emphasized at SV, though in many other ways she succeeded. It was Jan Dennis who became Hoover superintendent or something like that afterwards, and was one of the main instigators in the Rush Propst dismissal at Hoover. If she had have succeeded in our nickname change, what a joke we would have been to all opponents for all kinds of reasons.
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Shane Paschal
Shades Valley High School
Class of 1986
Go Mounties ! |
| tidefan102 |
Posted - 01/21/2010 : 12:34:02
From the Gadsden Times, When Coach Clair Strickland came to Glencoe in 1926 they were know at the Tigers. He built the first on campus stadium that year and as he was getting the field ready he unearthed several yellow jacket nests so he changed the nickname to Yellow Jackets and they are still the Yellow Jackets today.
Mike Naugher |
| tidefan102 |
Posted - 01/13/2010 : 09:39:55
Colbert County lights added in 1949
Mike Naugher |
| tidefan102 |
Posted - 01/12/2010 : 15:56:07
Lights Lauderdale County 1947
Mike Naugher |
| tidefan102 |
Posted - 01/08/2010 : 20:29:49
Lights added to Coffee, Sheffield and Deshler 1936
Mike Naugher |
