Travis Vaughn Tidwell (February 5, 1929 – July 1, 2004) was an

American football American football, referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron football, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular American football field, field with goalposts at e ...

player and coach. Tidwell played

high school football High school football, also known as prep football, is gridiron football played by High school (North America), high school teams in the United States and Canada. It ranks among the most popular high school sports, interscholastic sports in both c ...

for Woodlawn High School. He played

college football College football is gridiron football that is played by teams of amateur Student athlete, student-athletes at universities and colleges. It was through collegiate competition that gridiron football American football in the United States, firs ...

Auburn University Auburn University (AU or Auburn) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Auburn, Alabama, United States. With more than 26,800 undergraduate students, over 6,100 post-graduate students, and a tota ...

and then in the

National Football League The National Football League (NFL) is a Professional gridiron football, professional American football league in the United States. Composed of 32 teams, it is divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National ...

(NFL) with the

New York Giants The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in the New York metropolitan area. The Giants compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) NFC East, East division. The ...

. He was MVP of the

1950 Senior Bowl The 1950 Senior Bowl was a college football exhibition game featuring players from the 1949 college football season and prospects in the 1950 NFL draft. The inaugural edition of the Senior Bowl was played on January 7, 1950, at Gator Bowl Stadium ...

. Tidwell led Auburn in defeating Alabama in 1949.

Zipp Newman Henry Hardin "Zipp" Newman (May 24, 1894 – March 3, 1977) was an American sportswriter known as the "Dean of Southern Sports Writers." Early life and education Newman was born on May 24, 1894, in Smith Mills, Kentucky to Henry Haynes N ...

wrote "There has never been a sweeter Auburn victory in all the 58 years of football on the Plains than the Tigers 14–13 win over Alabama." Tidwell stood tall and weighed .

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1929 births 2004 deaths American football quarterbacks Auburn Tigers football coaches Auburn Tigers football players New York Giants players Players of American football from Florence, Alabama {{Quarterback-1920s-stub

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