Auburn won 29-5, continuing their winning streak. Alabama managed to score their first points against Auburn since 1900, but the result was never in doubt.
This page documents meeting #9 in the Iron Bowl History game database. The recorded result is Alabama 5, Auburn 29, with Auburn finishing 24 points ahead of Alabama at Birmingham, AL.
Early-era Iron Bowl records can be sparse, so this archive keeps the verified date, location and score separate from later interpretation. When more detailed contemporary accounts are available, they appear in the game summary, decisive moment, key player list or historical deep-dive section on this page.
In the surrounding chronology, the previous listed meeting was the 1903 Iron Bowl and the next listed meeting is the 1905 Iron Bowl. Those links help place this result within the broader Alabama-Auburn series rather than treating it as an isolated box score.
Auburn's relentless offensive pressure that produced 29 points.
In 1904, Alabama finally broke their scoring drought against Auburn, but it wasn’t enough to change the outcome.
Auburn won 29-5 in Birmingham. Alabama’s lone touchdown was a small moral victory, ending a shutout streak that had spanned since 1900, but Auburn’s dominance of the era continued unchecked.
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