Alabama in the College Football Hall of Fame
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First-Team All-Americans 115 Players, Honored 135 Times 4 - Mark Barron 65 - Buddy Brown All-American: 2010-11 All-American: 1973 Career: 2008-11 Career: 1971-73 6-2 • 218 6-1 • 243 Safety Offensive Tackle 37 - Shaun Alexander Mobile, Ala . Tallahassee, Fla . All-American: 1999 Career: 1996-99 6-1 • 220 Tailback A consensus All-America and All-SEC pick in 1973, Florence, Ky . A first-team All-American at safety in 2010 by the Brown was also a member of the Tide’s Team of the Football Writers and a consensus choice in 2011, for four Decade for the 1970s . Known as “Bearcat” by his team- seasons Mark Barron led the secondary from his safety mates, Brown won the 1973 Jacobs Trophy given annu- spot as the unit matured into a vital cog in one of the ally to the best blocker in the SEC . He played on teams most dominant units in college football history . Barron that compiled a 32-4 record and won three SEC titles and SEC and 15 Alabama rushing records and earned All- was twice a first-team All-SEC selection by the league one national championship . AmericaThe 1999honors SEC Player during hisof thesenior Year, season Alexander (1999) set three. That coaches and the Associated Press . In 2010, he led the season, he was also a finalist for the Doak Walker Award team in tackles with 75, had three interceptions, six pass and Football News Offensive Player of the Year honors . breakups, two quarterback hurries, two sacks and forced He was a consensus All-SEC selection and also earned a fumble . Barron was voted a permanent team captain Academic All-SEC honors . He finished seventh in the by his teammates at the end of 2010 . He repeated that 63 - Jim Bunch Heisman Trophy balloting . captaincy in 2011, ranking second with 68 tackles, two All-American: 1979 interceptions, five pass breakups and a fumble recovery Career: 1976-79 CAREER STATISTICS 6-1 • 240 Rushing Receiving CAREER STATISTICS Offensive Tackle Year Att. Yards TD No. Yards TD Year Tackles INT-Yards PBU Mechanicsville, Va . 1996 77 589 6 7 53 0 2008 18 0-0 0 1997 90 415 3 4 37 0 2009 76 7-125 11 1998 258 1178 13 26 385 4 2010 75 3-6 6 1999 302 1383 19 25 323 4 2011 68 2-14 5 Totals 727 3565 41 62 779 8 Totals 236 12-145 22 A consensus All-America selection in 1979, Bunch was a mainstay on the Tide’s undefeated, untied national championship team that season . He earned All-SEC hon- ors in 1977-78-79 and played on two national champion- ship teams and three SEC title teams . Bunch played on 28 - Javier Arenas 97 - Cornelius teams that went 43-5 during his playing career and won All-American: 2009 three Sugar Bowls and one Liberty Bowl . He is a member Career: 2006-09 Bennett of the 1970s Team of the Decade and was named the 5-9 • 195 All-American: 1984-85-86 Career: 1983-86 nation’s best sophomore offensive lineman by Football Cornerback News in 1977 . Tampa, Fla . 6-4 • 215 Linebacker Birmingham, Ala . A first-team All-American at cornerback in 2009, 57 - Johnny Cain Javier Arenas was also one of the all-time NCAA greats A three-time All-American, Bennett was a unani- All-American: 1931-32 as a return specialist . He made 71 tackles with five mous selection in 1986, the year he also won the Career: 1930-32 interceptions, 11 pass breakups and an amazing five Lombardi Trophy . He was the SEC Player of the Year 5-10 • 183 sacks from his position at cornerback in 2009 . Arenas in 1986 after earning All-America honors in 1984 and Fullback/Punter also averaged 15 41. yards per punt return in 2009 to 1985 . Bennett was the Defensive Player of the Game Montgomery, Ala . rank fourth nationally . He set the Alabama and SEC in the 1985 Aloha Bowl and the 1986 Sun Bowl and record for career punt return yardage with 1,752 yards finished seventh in the Heisman Trophy balloting that year . He was selected to the Tide’s Team of the Century and seven touchdowns . Arenas finished just nine yards and was the Player of the Decade for the 1980s . He went An All-America selection in 1931 and 1932, “Hurri” behind the NCAA record held by Texas Tech’s Wes on to a stellar career in the NFL, including four Super Cain was one of the great all-around players in Alabama Welker . Bowl appearances with the Buffalo Bills and one with football history . Considered by many experts to be the the Atlanta Falcons . best punter ever at the Capstone, he was equally gifted CAREER STATISTICS running the football . He scored 26 touchdowns in just Year Tackles INT-Yards PBU CAREER STATISTICS 24 varsity games . Cain had nine touchdowns in the first 2006 0 0-0 0 Year Tackles TFL-Yards Sacks-Yards FC FR four games of the 1932 season before suffering an injury 2007 20 0-0 1 1983 73 6-22 0-0 2 1 which kept him out of three games . His 81-yard scoring 2008 63 1-63 8 1984 102 4-39 1-7 1 1 run against St . Mary’s is considered one of the great 2009 71 5-25 11 1985 51 4-14 4-39 2 1 individual efforts in Alabama history . Against Tennessee Totals 154 6-88 20 1986 61 9-27 10-78 1 0 in 1932, he punted 19 times and averaged 48 yards per Totals 287 23-10 15-124 6 3 kick . Cain was voted a member of the all-time Alabama team in 1943 and then to the Team of the Century as a punter in 1992 . 7 - Jay Barker All-American: 1994 90 - Thomas Boyd 59 - Antoine Caldwell Career: 1991-94 All-American: 1980-81 All-American: 2008 6-4 • 215 Career: 1978-81 Career: 2005-08 Quarterback 6-1 • 211 6-3 • 305 Trussville, Ala . Linebacker Center Huntsville, Ala . Montgomery, Ala . The Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award winner in 1994, Barker finished fifth in the Heisman Trophy ballot- A two-time All-America pick (1980-81), Boyd led the ing that season . He finished his career as the winningest 1980 team with 120 tackles . His 324 career tackles rank A consensus first-team All-American, Antoine quarterback in Alabama history, compiling a 34-2-1 second by any Tide player since statistics were kept on a Caldwell anchored one of the nation’s top offensive lines record as the Tide’s starting quarterback . He earned All- regular basis in 1970 . He played on three SEC champion- in 2008 as he helped lead the Crimson Tide to a 12-2 America and consensus All-SEC honors his senior season . ship teams and on back-to-back national championship record and an SEC West Championship . He started 48 He was also the Birmingham News Offensive Player of the teams in 1978 and 1979 . During his four playing years, career games, including all 14 in 2008, and is one of just Year in the SEC and was a finalist for the Davey O’Brien the Tide went 42-5-1 . eight players in school history to be voted a team cap- Award, presented each year to the outstanding college tain two consecutive years . He received prestigious All- quarterback . CAREER STATISTICS America honors from the Associated Press, the American Year Tackles TFL-Yards INT-Yards FC FR Football Coaches Association, and Sporting News while CAREER STATISTICS 1978 26 0-0 0-0 0 0 being selected first-team All-SEC by the Associated Press, Year Att Comp Pct. Yards Int. TD 1979 92 5-10 0-0 0 0 Sporting News and SEC coaches . Caldwell was also a 1991 66 33 500. 554 3 1 1980 120 4-25 0-0 0 2 Rimington Trophy finalist in 2008 . 1992 243 132 543. 1614 9 7 1981 86 3-10 1-10 2 0 1993 171 98 573. 1525 7 4 Totals 324 12-45 1-10 3 2 1994 226 139 615. 1996 5 14 Totals 706 402 .569 5689 24 26 2015 Alabama Football Record Book 221 19 - Jeremiah Castille 79 - Richard Cole 9 - Amari Cooper All-American: 1982 All-American: 1966 All-American: 2014 Career: 1979-82 Career: 1964-66 Career: 2012-14 5-11 • 171 6-0 • 200 6-1 • 210 Cornerback Defensive Tackle Wide Receiver Phenix City, Ala . Crossville, Ala . Miami, Fla . An All-America selection in 1982, Castille was also An All-America pick in 1966, The 2014 SEC Offensive Player of the Year, a consen- selected a member of the Tide’s Team of the Century and Cole played on teams that were 30-2-1 and won two sus first-team All-American in 2014 and the winner of the Team of the Decade of the 1980s . He had 16 career national championships . He served as defensive captain the 2014 Biletnikoff Award as the nation’s outstanding interceptions which, at the time, was the most in school of the 1966 undefeated SEC title team . He had eight receiver, Amari Cooper finished third in the voting for history . He had three interceptions to win the Most tackles and keyed the pressure attack on Auburn in the the Heisman Trophy as a junior . Cooper shattered every Valuable Player trophy in Coach Paul “Bear” Bryant’s 1965 game when the Tide intercepted seven passes . He meaningful Alabama single-season and career receiving final game, a 21-15 win over Illinois in the Liberty Bowl .