Apr 8, 2025 · Auburn football coach Ralph "Shug" Jordan, left, is shown with Alabama's Paul "Bear" Bryant prior to the 1970 Iron Bowl at Legion Field in Birmingham. The Tigers won the game 33-28.

James Ralph " Shug " Jordan (/ ʃʊɡ ˈdʒɜːrdən / SHUUG JUR-dən; September 25, 1910 – July 17, 1980) was an American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach of football and basketball.

Jun 6, 2024 · Selma’s Ralph "Shug" Jordan had already held a college head coaching job (basketball at Auburn) when he volunteered for World War II in 1942, interrupting his coaching career for his country. Little did Jordan know that he would become part of the largest amphibious landing in world history.

From 1954 to 1958 Shug took five straight over the state’s flagship university, restoring API pride and giving the Plainsmen their longest winning streak in the rivalry until recent times.

Sep 26, 2023 · Ralph "Shug" Jordan (1910-1980) coached the Auburn University football team from 1951 until his retirement at the end of the 1975 season. Recording 176 wins, 83 losses, and six ties, Jordan led his alma mater to more wins than any other head football coach in Auburn's rich football history.

Nov 23, 2018 · The story of the friendship behind Auburn coach Shug Jordan and Alabama coach Bear Bryant adds to the legend of the rivalry. Shug Jordan is the winningest head coach in Auburn football history. In 1982 he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a head coach.

Auburn University football coach Ralph "Shug" Jordan, left, and University of Alabama (UA) coach Paul "Bear" Bryant during the Iron Bowl at Birmingham 's Legion Field in 1975, the year Jordan retired.

Nov 14, 2016 · AUBURN – Combat is a kill-or-be-killed way of life and death and few knew that military fact of life quite as well as did Ralph “Shug” Jordan during World War II. A decorated Army officer who...

Oct 6, 2017 · 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.

Nov 26, 2019 · From 1951 to 1975, Ralph “Shug” Jordan compiled a record of 176–83–6 and recorded the most wins in Auburn history, but there was a lot more to him than football.