Tuscaloosa, AL Photograph - Since The 1930s, Big Al, The Alabama Crimson Tide Football Team Mascot has cheered The Team to Victory at The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama

University of Alabama Football is huge. The name of the football program is Alabama Crimson Tide. The team currently competes in NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision as a member of the Southeastern Conference. Since beginning play in 1892, the program has claimed 13 national championships. This is what is called A-Day, which is a Spring scrimmage or a practice session for the Alabama football team. 92,000 Alabama Football fans attended the game. There was no admission fee. Most of the fans wore maroon or red and white with the name of the football team on their garments. Even the children were all decked out in the teams colors.

Carol M. Highsmith (born 1946) is a photographer, author, and publisher who has photographed all 50 of the United States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico for 30 years. She specializes in documenting architecture, ranging from the monumental to the everyday and whimsical. Highsmith is donating her life ’s work of more than 100,000 images, copyright-free, to the Library of Congress, which established a rare one-person archive. Out of 14 million images, the Carol M. Highsmith collection is featured in the top six alongside of Mathew Brady and Dorethea Lange. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.