Each Friday during the 2017 football season, AuburnTigers.com will feature a column from Auburn historian and Athletic Director Emeritus David Housel to commemorate the 125 year history of Auburn football. We hope you enjoy!
By David Housel
Let's get the sad stuff, the unfortunate stuff, out of the way first. For a person of my generation, a child of the sixties, it is hard to say this, but it is nonetheless true. Truth telling is often hard.
Coach Ralph "Shug" Jordan, forever my Auburn coach, and the man who defines Auburn Football for my generation, could not survive today.