WE PLAYED THE GAME ON FRIDAY
IN A PASTURE SOUTH OF TOWN
SEPTEMBER'S AIR WAS COOLING
AND THE LEAVES WERE FLECKED WITH BROWN
IT WAS A TILT MOMENTOUS
FROM MILES AROUND THEY CAME
THOSE BOTTOMS FILLED TO OVERFLOW
TO WATCH US PLAY THE GAME
WE HEARD OUR PRE-GAME LECTURE
OUR COACH WAS MOST INTENT
HIS SEARING WORDS DID SCORCH THE AIR
WE KNEW JUST WHAT HE MEANT
AND WHEN THE GAME HAD STARTED
WE SHOWED THEM OUR "PRE-SHIFT"
THE DECEPTION AND THE QUICK SNAPS
DID SET THEIR PACE A DRIFT
BEFORE THEY COULD RECOVER
OUR TEAM HAD POSTED SIX
AND FOR A WHILE IT STAYED THAT WAY
BUT BOY WE PASSED SOME LICKS
WE BESTED THEM AT SCRIMMAGE
DID THWART THEIR EVERY TRICK
IT SEEMED WE WOULD WIN THE GAME
'TILL JOLLY BLOCKED THE KICK
WITH THAT FEAT THEY TIED THE SCORE
THE HOUR WAS GROWING LATE
THE GAME CLOCK WAS WINDING DOWN
A DEADLOCK SEEMED OUR FATE
THE EVENING SUN WAS SINKING LOW
WE PRAYED TO LADY LUCK
THEN FROM DEEP PUNT THEY KICKED THE BALL
TWAS THEN THAT LIGHTNING STRUCK
THEY SENT THE BALL ASOARING
DOWN TO OUR THIRTY-FIVE
OUR SAFETY CAUGHT THE BALL FULL STRIDE
AND OUR BLOCKING CAME ALIVE
WHEN THAT SNAKY RUN HAD ENDED
OUR SAFETY MAN HAD STALLIONED IN
THE TOUCHDOWN MADE US VICTORS
AND ASSURED OUR PRECIOUS WIN
OUR ROOKIE COACH WAS HAPPY
THE WIN HAD SLAKED HIS THRIST
ENSUING YEARS WOULD BRING HIM FAME
BUT THIS WIN WAS HIS FIRST
WE PLAYED THE GAME ON FRIDAY
IN A PASTURE SOUTH OF TOWN
AND WHEN THE DUST HAD SETTLED
WE PUT THE PURPLE DOWN
"THE GAME" WAS WRITTEN BY CHARLES "SPEEDY" KIRPATRICK.
THE GAME IN THE POEM WAS THE SECOND GAME IN 1936 AGAINST PARRISH. THE ROOKIE COACH WAS ALLEN DOUGLAS WHO WOULD COACH FOOTBALL ELEVEN YEARS IN CORDOVA. COACH DOUGLAS WAS THE TRANSITION COACH. HE COACHED THE BANKHEAD SENATORS THEIR LAST FOUR YEARS(1936-1939) AND HE COACHED THE CORDOVA BLUE DEVILS THEIR FIRST SEVEN YEARS(1940-1946). HIS RECORD AS BOTH SENATOR AND BLUE DEVIL COACH IS 57-34-8. IN 1946, COACH DOUGLAS' LAST YEAR AS BLUE DEVIL COACH, THE CORDOVA BLUE DEVILS PLAYED THEIR FIRST GAME ON WHAT IS NOW HUDSON-KIRBY FIELD. COACH ALLEN AND THE BLUE DEVILS WON THAT GAME WITH A 26-13 VICTORY OVER THE CURRY YELLOW JACKETS.
BELOW IS A YEAR BY YEAR LOOK AT THE BANKHEAD SENATORS. RECORDED ACCOUNTS OF THE GAMES JUST WERE NOT KEPT AS THEY ARE TODAY, SO SOME YEARS I DONT HAVE ALL THE GAMES OR RESULTS OF THOSE GAMES. ALL THE INFORMATION I HAVE IS PRESENTED HERE. WHEN AND IF I RECEIVE MORE INFORMATION, I WILL INCLUDE THAT INFORMATION ALSO.
