Crimson Tide Roll Call: Nov. 12, 2020

Your daily briefing on what's going on with Alabama athletics

Today is ... National Chicken Soup for the Soul Day 

BamaCentral Headlines

• Crimson Tikes: Back on Top

• Alabama Hopes Roydell Williams, Jase McClellan Can Provide Depth at Running Back: "They're Competitors"

• Friday Night Lights Radio Set For Week 12

• LSU Coach Ed Orgeron Wants Alabama Game Rescheduled

• Alabama DL LaBryan Ray Returns To Practice

• Alabama Gymnastics Inks Three During Fall Signing Period

• Alabama Football Has One Positive COVID-19 Test, Aims To Stay in Rhythm During Second Bye Week

• Alabama Players in the NFL Tracker Week 10

• Greg Sankey "Shaken But Not Deterred" Over SEC Postponements

• Crimson Corner: Hindsight in 2020

• Practice Report: Alabama Forced Indoors, Continuing Work Despite LSU Postponement

• In case you missed it: Meet Alabama Basketball's First Signees of 2021 Early Signing Period: Langston Wilson and Jusaun Holt

Did you notice?

• Alabama baseball signed 11 players on the first day of the early signing period including infielders Noah Miller, Will Hodo, and Jimmy Thies, pitchers Connor Ball, Brandon Clarke, Nathan Shelton, Hagan Banks, Luke Holman, and Kade Woods, catcher Graham Crawford, and outfielder Camden Hayslip. 

• The Crimson Tide softball program added three in utility players Jenna Lord and Kali Hemlin, and infielder/catcher Aubrey Barnhart. 

Welcome to the #BamaSB family Aubrey!✍️
𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗲𝗹𝗱/𝗖𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿
🔘2020 Gatorade Tennessee Player of the Year
🔘No. 3 in 2021 ExtraInnings Softball Class Rankings
🔘2019 Tennessee Coaches Association Division II/AA Miss Softball
🔘Two-time USA Junior Olympic Cup Champion pic.twitter.com/qbrojWCye0

— Alabama Softball (@AlabamaSB) November 11, 2020

• From our friends at AllDolphins: Tua Tagovailoa on his most recent win and the one-year anniversary of his hip injury.

.@Tua explained why it was important to him to hand Brian Flores his game ball after the win at Arizona, why he doesn't feel he's totally back physically and why the one-year anniversary of his injury is so significant.https://t.co/0EQjWmmnyz

— Alain Poupart (@PoupartNFL) November 12, 2020

• Dallas Cowboys cornerback Trevon Diggs is out 4-6 weeks with a hairline fracture in his foot.

Trevon Diggs suffered a left foot fracture on this play. He broke his right foot six games into his junior season at Alabama (2018). He missed the rest of that season but came back to play in every game his senior year https://t.co/rPQDF2dvBx

— Jon Machota (@jonmachota) November 11, 2020

• Running back Bo Scarbrough was signed to the Seattle Seahawks practice squad.

The @Seahawks added a running back to the practice squad this afternoon. #GoHawks https://t.co/JLta8jTIwr

— Seahawks PR (@seahawksPR) November 11, 2020

• Alabama and LSU's volleyball matches set for this weekend have been moved to Nov. 15 and 16 due to the contact tracing in the Tigers program.

Volleyball matches between LSU and Alabama, scheduled to be played November 14 and 15, have been postponed due to contact tracing amongst the LSU program.

The action is consistent with COVID-19 management requirements developed by the SEC’s Medical Guidance Task Force.

— Southeastern Conference (@SEC) November 11, 2020

• Justin Thomas tees off at the first round of The Masters on Thursday morning at 10:49 a.m (CT). 

Final prep. 🟢 pic.twitter.com/IKDRcQVMOJ

— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) November 12, 2020

On this date in Crimson Tide history:

November 12, 1960: Alabama rallied from a 15-0 fourth quarter deficit to defeat Georgia Tech 16-15 at Grant Field in Atlanta. Senior quarterback Bobby Skelton engineered the comeback, with Leon Fuller and Norbie Ronsonet scoring touchdowns, but the game came down a field-goal attempt on the final play. Paul W. “Bear” Bryant went with reserve kicker Digger O'Dell, who had never attempted a field goal at Alabama, to make the game-winning kick.

Crimson Tide quote of the day

Nov. 12: "It's one of the things we've been wanting to do is try to develop some confidence in the passing game, and obviously he was able to do that very well today." — Nick Saban after Jalen Hurts became the first Crimson Tide player to have 300 yards passing and 100 yards rushing in the same game during Alabama’s 51-3 victory against Mississippi State on this date in 2016.

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