1955 Iron Bowl

1955-11-26

Birmingham, AL (Legion Field)

ALABAMA

0

VS

AUBURN

Ranked #10

26

WINNER

Series Snapshot

#20

Meeting of 90

9-10-1

Series after game

4-2-0

Record in the 1950s through this game

#22

Widest-margin rank

Before this meeting, the archive record stood at Alabama 9, Auburn 9, with 1 tie. The 1955 result moved it to Alabama 9, Auburn 10, with 1 tie.

This was the 6th listed Iron Bowl of the 1950s. Through this game, Alabama had 4 wins, Auburn had 2, and the decade included 0 ties.

The teams combined for 26 points, ranking #70 in total scoring among the 90 meetings in the current archive. The 26-point margin ranks #22 by size.

Explore the score, game details and rivalry context for this Alabama-Auburn meeting. In the surrounding chronology, the previous listed meeting was 1954 and the next was 1956.

Decisive Moment

Howell Tubbs's two second-quarter touchdown passes to Jerry Elliott.

Key Players

Fob James (Auburn)

Joe Childress (Auburn)

Frank D'Agostino (Auburn)

Bart Starr (Alabama)

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The Game

Alabama arrived at Legion Field on 26 November 1955 without a win, and left with a record no Alabama team has matched before or since.

Tubbs to Elliott, twice

Neither side scored in the first quarter. Howell Tubbs then threw two touchdown passes to Jerry Elliott, from 23 and ten yards, and Auburn led 13-0. The Tigers added two more short rushing touchdowns in the fourth quarter, one from Joe Childress and one from Tubbs himself, to finish at 26-0. Four touchdowns, two conversions.

0-10

Alabama finished the season without a victory in ten attempts. They scored 4.8 points a game and conceded 25.6. It was J.B. Whitworth’s first year in charge, and he had inherited a squad that had gone 4-5-2 the season before; the collapse was faster and steeper than anyone had expected. Quarterback Bart Starr spent his senior season on a team that could not score.

Auburn ranked

The Tigers were ranked tenth going into the game and completed the regular season 8-1-1. They lost the Gator Bowl to Vanderbilt 25-13 on New Year’s Eve to finish 8-2-1. Three seasons after a 2-8 year, Shug Jordan had a top-ten team. Two seasons later he would have the best team in the country.

The 26-0 result was Auburn’s second straight win in the series and their second consecutive shutout of Alabama. The next two would be worse.