Third Saturday in October: The Game-By-Game Story of the South's Most Intense Football Rivalry

On November 18, 1901, the Universityof Alabama and the Universityof Tennessee first locked horns on a football field. At the contest's end, the score was tied, nothing had been resolved, and about two thousand fans were on the field at Tuscaloosa, fighting.

Since that day the Tennessee-Alabama game has developed into one of the premier football rivalries in the nation. To many of the faithful, it is much more than a game — it is a crusade. The intensity with which these games have been waged...