Jun 6, 2024 · Decades later, one football legend who had also fought in World War II made a startling statement about Shug Jordan and his combat service. Alabama head coach Paul “Bear” Bryant” said: “Shug has more courage in his little finger than I’ve got in my entire body.”

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. (Birmingham ...

Nov 14, 2016 · Jordan and University of Alabama football Coach Paul “Bear” Bryant admired each other, but were likely to have had an ambivalent relationship.

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. The API 1957 national championship team.

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.

James Ralph "Shug" Jordan (/ ʃ ʊ ɡ ˈ dʒ ɜːr d ən / SHUUG JUR-dən; September 25, 1910 – July 17, 1980) was an American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach of football and basketball.

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.

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.

Oct 6, 2017 · Coach Ralph "Shug" Jordan, forever my Auburn coach, and the man who defines Auburn Football for my generation, could not survive today.

Nov 23, 2017 · It was his best season–he was runner up for Shug’s Headhunter of the Year award–and, again, the Iron Bowl wound up one of the best games of his career. The words “Roy Tatum” and “key stop” were the chorus of the Sunday sports section.