1926 Alabama Crimson Tide football team The 1926 Alabama Crimson Tide football team ( variously " Alabama " , " UA " or " Bama " ) represented the University of Alabama in the 1926 college football season . It was the Crimson Tide ' s 33rd overall and 5th season as a member of the Southern Conference ( SoCon ) . The team was led by head coach Wallace Wade , 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 nine wins , zero losses and one tie ( 9 – 0 – 1 overall , 8 – 0 in the SoCon ) , as Southern Conference champions and as national champions after they tied Stanford in the Rose Bowl . Game notes . Hubert , Brown , Bill Buckler , and other stars from the 1925 team were gone , but Alabama still went 9 - 0 , in almost as dominating a fashion as it had the year before . Against Mississippi State , Alabama intercepted seven passes . The Tide held Georgia Tech to two first downs in a 21 – 0 victory . Only one game was close . Against Sewanee , Alabama had multiple scoring chances but could not convert . Once Bama was stopped at the Sewanee 9 , and in the fourth quarter Alabama was stopped at the Sewanee 1 . Sewanee did not move the ball as much as Alabama did but reached the Alabama 6 in the second quarter before a 15 - yard penalty threw them back . The game almost ended in a scoreless tie , but late in the fourth Alabama blocked a Sewanee punt which rolled out the back of the end zone for a safety and a 2 – 0 Tide victory . Alabama ' s win over Sewanee was the last close game in a series that dated all the way back to 1893 , was dominated by Sewanee early ( 9 – 1 – 1 Tiger advantage between 1893 and 1915 ) , and was one of the Tide ' s biggest rivalries . Sewanee was dominant in the South in the early days of college football , but in the 1920s the Tigers were left behind by the growing football powers of the Southern Conference . The Alabama - Sewanee series continued as a series of blowouts periodically through 1938 ; Sewanee now competes in Division III of the NCAA . Again the season was extended as Alabama received another invitation to play in the Rose Bowl . The 1927 Rose Bowl was the first sporting event to ever be nationally broadcast on radio . Alabama ' s opponent was the Stanford Cardinal , also 9 – 0 and coached by football legend Pop Warner . Stanford mounted a 63 - yard drive in the first quarter to take a 7 – 0 lead . Stanford dominated play for much of the rest of the game , outgaining Alabama 305 yards to 98 , but could not score again . Late in the fourth Bama got the big play it needed : Clarke Pearce blocked a punt by Frankie Wilton of Stanford , setting up the Tide at the Cardinal 14 . Five plays later , with only seconds remaining , Alabama punched it in from the 1 to make the score 7 – 6 . The two - point conversion would not become a rule in college football for another 32 years , so Alabama lined up for the game - tying extra point . As the teams came to the line , Emile Barnes of Alabama shouted " Signals off ! " . Stanford took that to mean that Alabama was resetting and relaxed . Instead , Alabama promptly snapped and kicked the extra point to tie the game . Stanford ran only two plays before time expired and the game ended a 7 – 7 tie . The NCAA retroactively named Alabama and Stanford co - national champions for 1926 due to each being chosen by several of the ranking authorities . It was a second consecutive national championship for Wallace Wade and the Crimson Tide . The tie with Stanford snapped a 20 - game winning streak that remains the second - longest in school history , behind two 28 - game winning streaks from 1978 to 1980 and another from 1991 to 1993 . References . General Personnel . Coaching staff . Specific