Alabama Crimson Tide Desktop Sculpture

                ICON Artworks is proud to pay tribute to the beloved University of Alabama mascot with our officially licensed CRIMSON TIDE Desktop Sculpture!   A perfect gift for students, alumni, faculty, and fans alike!  ROLL TIDE!!  The story of how Alabama became associated with the "elephant" goes back to the 1930 season when Coach Wallace Wade had assembled a great football team. Sportswriter Everett Strupper of the Atlanta Journal wrote a story of the Alabama-Mississippi game he had witnessed in Tuscaloosa. Strupper wrote, "That Alabama team...is powerful, big, tough, fast, aggressive, well-schooled in fundamentals, and the best blocking team that I have ever seen. When those big brutes hit you I mean you go down and stay down, often for an additional two minutes.  Coach Wade had started his 2nd Team and... "At the end of the (1st) quarter, the earth started to tremble, there was a distant rumble that continued to grow. Some excited fan in the stands bellowed, 'Hold your horse