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Auburn wearing a green jersey is odd, is it not? Except it's historically accurate.⠀ ⠀ During the 1938 and 1939 seasons, Auburn wore green jerseys for twelve of the 21 games played. Why? Because a coach so loved his alma mater.⠀ ⠀ The story goes as such: Auburn head coach Jack Meagher had played football at Notre Dame under legendary coach Knute Rockne. After finishing school, he then began to coach the Fighting Irish under Rockne.⠀ ⠀ Notre Dame alums were a hot commodity on the coaching trail with their connections to Rockne. Irish coaches would often schedule each other's teams and tend to compete to show who was the best Notre Dame product among them.⠀ ⠀ Also during that time, Auburn was not a well respected program and often had to travel to the majority of their games. They traveled as far as San Francisco, California, to face Santa Clara. Teams weren't interested in traveling to Auburn, Alabama.⠀ ⠀ Meagher wanted to show off to his fellow alums just how much he loved Notre Dame, ...
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