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1911

Birmingham Medical College and "UAB's" first football team:



Birmingham Medical College, considered a direct predecessor in the lineage of UAB operated in Birmingham under a state charter from 1894 to 1915, becoming part of the University of Alabama in September of 1912. In its latter years, the college was located on 6th Avenue South, adjacent to Hillman Hospital.

In 1911, the Birmingham Medical College fielded a football team. There is documentation of at least three games played by the college that year.

• Albertville Agricultural School 59, BMC 0
• Alabama Presbyterian 53, BMC 0
• Marion Military Institute 71, BMC 0

Not much else is known, but athletics were formed in 1910 and began play in 1911; the school colors were blue and gold and that at least 21 of the graduates had played college football.

The school also fielded a baseball team that defeated Howard College and a Cross Country team that participated in the Birmingham Athletic Club meet.

Birmingham - Early 20th Century Home of Jack Daniel's

Above - The round silo at the left marks the site of Jack Daniels Distilling Company, which produced the famous whisky during the period of prohibition in the state of Tennessee, the company moved to St. Louis in 1915 when Alabama enacted state-wide prohibition. The plant was located on 2nd Avenue South, just behind the current location of Good People Brewing.

Below - The former company headquarters located on 2nd Avenue North. (Lem Motlow was Jack Daniel's nephew and successor)



Morris Avenue


Miss Fancy


Avondale Park Zoo






Hillman Hospital Nurses


Jefferson County Bank Building



Theodore Roosevelt


Banner Mine Explosion Crowd





Motorcycle Races at Fairgrounds July 4, 1911


Birmingham Motor and Country Club clubhouse under construction





One of the many soft drinks bottled in Birmingham during the early 20th century.




Birmingham High School





2011

Wayne Bolt must have been the DC for those early teams too

(08-23-2017 12:07 PM)biglizard Wrote:  Wayne Bolt must have been the DC for those early teams too

probably his grandfather Jebediah Bolt, who taught young Wayne everything he knew about defense while Granny Bolt served up huge meals of delicious food.

How did green and gold come to be UAB's colors? I like them (probably better than blue and gold), don't get me wrong, but it would've been a good story to re-use the old ones

I don't know the origin but green and gold were in place long before Barrow started athletics. The club basketball team in the early 70s used green and gold

Wait until they hear that one of our first basketball players was a local wraslin' star.

Well when I played for USA football club in the 80's we played Marion Military & got beat not as bad but pretty bad in an absolute downpour & they had Dwight Stone future Pittsburg Steeler playing for them.