 On October 8, 1930, a sportswriter for the "Atlanta Journal", Everett Strupper, wrote about the previous weekend's Alabama-Ole Miss football game.He wrote, "That Alabama team of 1930 is a typical [Coach Wallace] Wade machine, powerful, big, tough, fast, aggressive, well-schooled in fundamentals, and the best blocking team for this early in the season 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."