1920 Alabama Crimson Tide football team

The 1920 Alabama Crimson Tide football team (variously "Alabama", "UA" or "Bama") represented the University of Alabama in the 1920 college football season. It was the Crimson Tide's 27th overall and 24th season as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA). The team was led by head coach Xen C. Scott, in his second year, and played their home games at Denny Field in Tuscaloosa and at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama. They finished the season with a record of ten wins and one loss (10–1 overall, 6–1 in the SIAA). This marked the first ten win season in the history of Alabama football.

Game notes
Alabama opened the season with six consecutive shutout victories over the Southern Military Academy, Marion Military Institute,, , ,. Southern Military didn't get a first down. Against  Alabama finally gave up a score but won 14-7 when Vanderbilt threw an interception on 4th and goal at the 3 in the fourth quarter.

The first and only loss of the year came against Georgia in the first road game of the season, snapping Alabama's school-record 11-game winning streak. The Bulldogs did not score a single point on offense but won a 21–14 victory by scoring three touchdowns on a fumble return, a blocked punt return, and a blocked field goal return. Alabama won their final two games against and in Cleveland at  to finish the season 10–1.

Starting with Xen Scott every Alabama coach has won 10 games in a season at least once, with the exception of the disastrous tenure of J.B. Whitworth (Mike Price was fired before ever coaching a game and Joe Kines served as interim coach for one game).

Riggs Stephenson, star back on the 1920 team, became a Major League Baseball player after his football days were over and compiled a .336 lifetime batting average over 14 seasons in the big leagues.

Schedule

 * Source: Rolltide.com: 1920 Alabama football schedule