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Crimson Tide Roll Call: April 1, 2022

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Crimson Tide Roll Call: April 1, 2022
Crimson Tide Roll Call: April 1, 2022

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Today's Crimson Tide Schedule

  • Track & Field, Cross Country at Florida Relays, Outdoor Track & Field, Gainesville, Fla., All-Day
  • Track & Field, Cross Country at Stanford Invitational, Outdoor Track & Field, Palo Alto, Calif., All-Day
  • Women's Tennis at LSU, Baton Rouge, La., 5 p.m. CT
  • Baseball vs Texas A&M, Tuscaloosa, Ala., 6 p.m., SEC Network+
  • Men's Tennis vs #24 Texas A&M, Tuscaloosa, Ala., 6 p.m. CT

Crimson Tide Results

Gymnastics: 1st place (197.900) at Seattle Regional

Did you notice?

  • Alabama women's basketball picked up its third prospect from the transfer portal of the week. This time, it was Aaliyah Nye from Illinois. Nye averaged 12.4 PPG for the Illini. 
  • For those always asking, YES, Alabama softball will be on TV this weekend. All three games against the Georgia Bulldogs will be broadcast on television with Saturday afternoon's game on ESPN2, and Sunday and Monday's games on SEC Network. 
  • Alabama women's golfer Benedetta Moresco was tied for 4th at the Augusta National Women’s Amateur before play was suspended due to darkness in the middle of the second round. 

Did you see?

Alabama scored a 197.900 to reach the Regional Final in Seattle

On This Date in Crimson Tide History:

April 1, 1967: Dock Rhone, Jr., a 5-8, 185-pound guard from Carver High in Montgomery was the first black player to try out for the Crimson Tide football team. He was joined in spring practice by Andrew Pernell, Arthur Dunning, Melvin Leverette and Jerome Tucker. Rone and Pernell played in the spring game and both had a spot on the team for the fall, but Rone had to drop out of school. Pernell stayed on the team, but didn’t dress for a game.

April 1, 2006: No one knew it at the time, but the last A-Day Game with Mike Shula as head coach was played at Bryant-Denny Stadium. D.J. Hall caught seven passes for 136 yards and two touchdowns to be named game MVP as the White defeated the Crimson 17-3 before approximately 40,000 fans. 

Crimson Tide Quote of the Day

"I'd do it again in a minute. If you’re a football player, you dream of playing for Coach Bryant.” —John Mitchell, on being the first black player to play football at Alabama.

We'll leave you with this...

Former Alabama and current Denver Nuggets forward JaMychal Green is at the center of a viral Twitter video

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Katie Windham
KATIE WINDHAM

Katie Windham is the assistant editor for BamaCentral, primarily covering football, basketball, gymnastics and softball. She is a two-time graduate of the University of Alabama and has covered a variety of Crimson Tide athletics since 2019 for outlets like The Tuscaloosa News, The Crimson White and the Associated Press before joining BamaCentral full time in 2021. Windham has covered College Football Playoff games, the Women's College World Series, NCAA March Madness, SEC Tournaments and championships in multiple sports.

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