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How Alabama’s First Game Looked to the Old Sportswriter

By: Larry Burton

With the aches and pains of age there also comes wisdom and sometimes you see things a little clearer through aged eyes than the wide eyed enthusiasm that comes with youth. So here’s what these almost 61 year old eyes saw.

First of all, though the 51-14 score makes most fans want to turn cartwheels, I saw some of the same problems that Saban spoke of at the half and after the game.

One the bad side there were too many penalties against Alabama. This looked very untypical of a Saban era team at Alabama.