By Mickey Dunaway Reprinted with Permission by Currents Magazine April 2024 | Cornelius, NC I worked on my bachelor’s degree at Auburn University from 1965-69 in the prototypical college town… Read more Practicing Just in Case →
By Mickey Dunaway The last four games of this forgetful Auburn football season and how one native Auburn son turned the gloom into glory even with a record of 5-6 is uniquely Auburn. This year’s Cadillac-turnaround actually began in November 1972, and here is the story. ~~~~~~~~ It was second-ranked Alabama and ninth-ranked Auburn playing the tenth and final regular season game at Alabama’s “home turf” of Birmingham’s Legion Field. Alabama was 9-0, and Auburn was 8-1, losing only to LSU in Baton Rouge. No TV for this game back in 1972. Seventy-two… Read more The Amazins of 2002 →