Interesting story on the Wallace Wade coached Bama teams. Wade coached from 1923-1930.
In an interview with sportswriter Clyde Bolton, the former coach admitted the point of the exercise was psychological.
"You see, that second team was able to hold everybody scoreless the whole year. We knew it would help us for an opponent to play the second team and not score and then know we were sending in the first team."
And it worked. Alabama's first team stayed on the bench for the first quarter then came in and crushed the opposing team. At the end of the season the Crimson Tide had outscored its opponents 271 to 13. They held held eight teams scoreless and only Vanderbilt and Tennessee were able to reach the end zone and both of them accomplished the feat only once.
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