Ralph “Shug” Jordan coached Auburn for twenty-five seasons. The last of them ended at Legion Field on 29 November 1975 with a 28-0 defeat.
What is known about the scoring
Richard Todd threw seventeen yards to Jerry Brown for a first-quarter touchdown, and Alabama led 7-0 at half-time. Two more touchdowns came in the third quarter and one in the fourth. The surviving accounts do not identify the scorers of those final three touchdowns.
The defence
Alabama conceded 66 points across eleven regular-season games in 1975 — six a game — and shut out four opponents. Auburn were the fourth, and reached the Alabama end of the field rarely enough that the game was over as a contest well before it ended.
It was the thirteenth time Alabama had held Auburn scoreless in the series, and the second in three years.
The end of a tenure
Jordan had arrived in 1951, inherited a team that had gone winless the year before, won a national championship in his seventh season and stayed another eighteen. His record against Alabama was 9-16. He retired after this game; Doug Barfield took over for 1976.
Alabama finished 11-1 and beat Penn State 13-6 in the Sugar Bowl to end third in the final poll. It was their third straight win over Auburn and the halfway point of the nine.