Auburn in the 1960s
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Freshmen could not play on the varsity teams. (example: Pat Sullivan)
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College football teams could only be shown on TV once a year. (Plus a bowl game if lucky.)
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The term โIron Bowlโ had not been adopted.
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Aubie was just a pen-and-ink drawing, not an official mascot.
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Auburnโs home games against Tennessee, Georgia Tech, and Bama were played at Legion Field.
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Men wore sport coats and ties to games and bought corsages for their dates.
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Any male student who brought a woman to The Barn for a basketball game got picked up by the crowd and passed above the other spectators by hand, all the way around the court. His date was untouched during his trip.
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Undergraduate women had to live in campus dorms and had curfew every night. Men lived without rules.
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Women were required to wear skirts or dresses at all times except when on the way to gym class, when they had to wear raincoats over their gym clothes.
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Draft deferments were more important than parking spaces.
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