Alabama why crimson tide

The only thing I've ever seen is in the '20s, that's when the university kind of started using it if they were putting something out, they would use Crimson Tide and I've been trying to find — and I haven't found it — the first use of 'Roll Tide.

Using the database of newspapers. Most of the early newspaper references to the Crimson Tide referred to the nickname as "Alabama's" Crimson Tide, often with "Crimson Tide" in parentheses or at least one of "crimson" or "tide" spelled in lowercase.

That's all part of the evolution and popularization of a nickname. The newspapers. Newman is credited with making the nickname mainstream as he "probably popularized the name more than any other writer," according to Alabama's website. He was the youngest sports editor in the South when he began working in the role in , according to the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame. Part of his inductee bio reads, "Newman was the prime motivator behind the establishment of the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame.

He said Alabama reminded him of the sea pounding the sea shore and that's from a quote from him, another great Birmingham writer, Clyde Bolton, who interviewed him, but yeah, Zipp Newman probably popularized Crimson Tide. He was kind of the big writer at the time for this area. Hugh Roberts was probably a little bit before him. So, there's not a lot of clarity behind who, when, how or why one of the best football programs in the country got its nickname, but that's just part of Alabama's story.

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