1922 Alabama Crimson Tide football team The 1922 Alabama Crimson Tide football team ( variously " Alabama " , " UA " or " Bama " ) represented the University of Alabama in the 1922 college football season . It was the Crimson Tide ' s 29th overall and 1st season as a member of the Southern Conference ( SoCon ) . The team was led by head coach Xen C . Scott , in his fourth year , and played their home games at Denny Field in Tuscaloosa , at Rickwood Field in Birmingham and at the Cramton Bowl in Montgomery , Alabama . They finished the season with a record of six wins , three losses and one tie ( 6 – 3 – 1 overall , 3 – 2 – 1 in the SoCon ) . The 1922 season also marked the first for the Crimson Tide as a member of the SoCon , as Alabama was one of the twenty members of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association that left the Association to form the SoCon following the 1921 season . Game notes . Alabama opened the season with a 110 – 0 victory over the Marion Military Institute which still stands as the school record for largest margin of victory and as the Crimson Tide ' s only 100 point game . After a victory over Oglethorpe , Alabama went winless over their next three games with losses at both and and a tie against at Rickwood Field . Alabama dominated against Sewanee , holding the Tigers to six yards rushing and one first down , but had to settle for a 7 – 7 tie after Sewanee blocked a Tide field goal attempt , recovered five Alabama fumbles , and scored its only touchdown on an interception return . Alabama also fumbled five times against Texas , resulting in a loss . The Georgia game was Alabama ' s first ever game in Cramton Bowl in Montgomery . The Tide would use Cramton Bowl as another home stadium off and on until 1954 . With a record of 2 – 2 – 1 , Alabama entered their intersectional contest against undefeated , coached by John Heisman , as a major underdog . Noted sports columnist Grantland Rice having predicted a 21 – 0 Quaker victory . However , Coach Scott had gotten good scouting reports from fellow coaches he knew that had faced Penn . Alabama struck first in the second quarter with a field goal , but Penn responded with a touchdown after a short punt gave the Quakers the ball on the Alabama 35 . In the third quarter Alabama took the lead after Pooley Hubert fumbled on 3rd and goal and teammate Shorty Propst fell on the ball for a touchdown . The extra point failed , leaving Alabama up 9 – 7 . Twice in the fourth quarter Alabama missed field goals , leaving Penn with a chance to win late . The Quakers drove to the Alabama 30 in the final moments but on fourth down Alabama came up with a sack to clinch a 9 – 7 victory . Alabama had pulled off the shocking upset . " The Plain Dealer " called the game " intersectional history " . Xen C . Scott coached the 1922 season while dying of oral cancer . Scott spent the whole season suffering from the effects of his illness , losing weight , barely able to speak , coaching against the advice of a doctor who told him to quit immediately , and bedridden except when attending practices and games . After the Oglethorpe game Scott tendered his resignation , effective at the end of the season . Xen Scott died in April 1924 at age 41 . Personnel . Coaching staff . http : / / en . wikipedia . org / wiki / Help : Minor _ edit References . General Specific