The War Eagle Reader · Apr 24, 2020
When Terry Bowden fell in love with Auburn… in 1973
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Terry Bowden “fell in love with Auburn” — his words — 20 years before they got hitched.
It was the summer of 1973. Bobby Bowden was coaching West Virginia. Terry, an All-State running back, was heading into his senior year at Morgantown (West Virginia) High School. He was short. But Auburn apparently didn’t care about those things. That’s what he told after an afternoon of fishing in Childersburg with his great uncle and a couple of Amazins.
“My great uncle (Robert Cleckler) lived in Childersburg,” Bowden says. “He owned a bank. He was on George Wallace’s cabinet.”