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Football. 'I knew what progress was' - Football letterman Bill Jordan returns to Auburn after 50 years away

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AUBURN, Ala. - The Auburn Bill Jordan rediscovered during Homecoming is a far cry from the Auburn he knew as a student.

“It was amazing walking down there, how much everything had changed,” Jordan said. “I walked past the old Graves Center cabins, and it’s a museum piece. And I told Lee (Bill’s wife), ‘That’s where I lived from 1956 to ’60.’

“Coach Gene Lorendo had the cabin next to mine, and he knew I was in engineering, so he always bed-checked my cabin last, because he knew there might be some struggling engineering student in there studying way past bed check.