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rdf:type	NCAA team season
rdfs:label	Alabama Crimson Tide football, 1950–59
rdfs:comment	The 1950s were the worst decade in the history of Alabama football. The Tide football program, a frequent contender in the Southeastern Conference and regular bowl participant, had five losing seasons in the decade after not having had a losing season since 1903. Alabama bottomed out with an 0–10 season in 1955, the worst in the history of the program. However, the decade ended with the hiring of Paul "Bear" Bryant, who would rebuild Alabama football and guide it to its greatest successes.
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HeadCoach	Jennings B. Whitworth Harold Drew Bear Bryant
GameName	Cotton Bowl Classic Orange Bowl 1959 Liberty Bowl Third Saturday in October Iron Bowl dbkwik:resource/G1EUQRKVH8ylzfsVP8pufQ== dbkwik:resource/YjFl9UD0BQ-z4_MIreFUMg==
ncg	yes
Poll	AP Poll
Team	Alabama Crimson Tide
APRank	9 10 13 16
Date	1953-01-01 1954-01-01 --09-17 --09-18 --09-19 --09-21 --09-22 --09-25 --09-26 --09-27 --09-28 --09-29 --09-30 --10-01 --10-02 --10-03 --10-04 --10-05 --10-07 --10-09 --10-10 --10-11 --10-12 --10-16 --10-17 --10-18 --10-19 --10-21 --10-23 --10-24 --10-25 --10-26 --10-28 --10-29 --10-30 --10-31 --11-01 --11-02 --11-03 --11-05 --11-06 --11-08 --11-09 --11-10 --11-12 --11-13 --11-14 --11-15 --11-16 --11-17 --11-19 --11-21 --11-22 --11-23 --11-24 --11-25 --11-27 --11-28 --11-29 --11-30 --12-19 --09-23 --10-06 --10-08 --10-13 --10-15 --10-22 --10-27 --11-04 --11-07 --11-18 --11-26 --12-01 --09-24 --10-20 --11-11 --12-02
attend	no
BowlTourneyResult	L 0–7 vs. Penn State L 28–6 vs. Rice W 61–6 vs. Syracuse
w/l	l t w
Champion	SEC Champions
ShortConference	SEC
Conference	Southeastern Conference
away	yes
Record	0 2 4 5 6 7 9 10
homecoming	yes
site stadium	Tiger Stadium (LSU) Cotton Bowl (stadium) Cramton Bowl Bobby Dodd Stadium Tulane Stadium Jeppesen Stadium Byrd Stadium Sanford Stadium Miami Orange Bowl Legion Field Davis Wade Stadium Orange Bowl Stadium Rice Stadium (Rice University) Amon G. Carter Stadium Ladd Peebles Stadium Gator Bowl Vanderbilt Stadium Bryant-Denny Stadium dbkwik:resource/riUfh4m7NU_k407ZUFhI5g== dbkwik:resource/2np_VwL6kNEUdmw4FPav_Q== dbkwik:resource/UgBjqt6Vg0L3H7kr1tiFFQ== dbkwik:resource/n5yRvN6wSOX_Ow7g_W033g== Legion Field Scott Field Denny Stadium Ladd Stadium Tiger Stadium Miami Orange Bowl Tulane Stadium Ladd-Peebles Stadium
Score	0 2 3 6 7 8 9 10 12 13 14 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 25 26 27 28 29 33 34 40 41 42 53 54 61 89
nonconf	no yes
HC	yes
ranklink	yes
Mode	football
Rank	5 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 16 17 18 19 20 yes
CoachRank	9 11 13 17
rankyear	1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959
Captain	Bobby Smith Jim Blevins Marlin Dyess Dave Sington
Neutral	yes
opprank	1 2 4 5 6 7 8 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 18 19 20
BowlTourney	Cotton Bowl Classic Orange Bowl 1959 Liberty Bowl
StadiumArena	Cramton Bowl Legion Field Ladd Peebles Stadium Bryant-Denny Stadium
ConfRecord	0 1 2 3 4 6
site cityst	Atlanta, Georgia Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Mobile, Alabama Athens, Georgia Starkville, Mississippi Montgomery, Alabama College Park, Maryland Nashville, Tennessee Birmingham, Alabama Miami, Florida Knoxville, Tennessee Dallas, Texas Tuscaloosa, Alabama New Orleans, Louisiana Baton Rouge, Louisiana Houston, Texas Jacksonville, Florida Mobile, Alabama Baton Rouge, Louisiana Miami, Florida New Orleans, Louisiana Birmingham, Alabama Houston, Texas Atlanta, Georgia Fort Worth, Texas Tuscaloosa, Alabama Starkville, Mississippi
TV	no
Opponent	Rice Owls football 1953 Auburn Tigers football team Auburn Tigers football Tennessee Volunteers football Villanova Wildcats 1953 Tennessee Volunteers football team Maryland Terrapins football 1950 Florida Gators football team 1953 Georgia Bulldogs football team University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Vanderbilt Commodores football Virginia Tech Hokies football LSU Tigers football Delta State University University of Memphis Miami Hurricanes football TCU Horned Frogs football Tulane Green Wave football Penn State Nittany Lions football 1953 LSU Tigers football team 1953 Maryland Terrapins football team Houston Cougars football Furman University Mississippi State Bulldogs football Georgia Bulldogs football 1951 Florida Gators football team dbkwik:resource/H8X-2-Ykn7RfFYHbnc_VoQ== dbkwik:resource/KpylNcpmnvhbZ5-4qLNgBQ== Syracuse Orangemen football dbkwik:resource/WEnPZ3xTvn6Wg0jUF8jutQ==
Time	no
Year	1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959
abstract	The 1950s were the worst decade in the history of Alabama football. The Tide football program, a frequent contender in the Southeastern Conference and regular bowl participant, had five losing seasons in the decade after not having had a losing season since 1903. Alabama bottomed out with an 0–10 season in 1955, the worst in the history of the program. However, the decade ended with the hiring of Paul "Bear" Bryant, who would rebuild Alabama football and guide it to its greatest successes.