Alabama slipped to 4–4 after having lost no more than one game in each of the previous four seasons. The decisive points in Bama's 5–3 victory over Tulane came when a Tulane player was tacked in his own end zone for a safety after attempting to return a missed Alabama field goal. "Doc" Pollard, coach of Alabama from 1906 to 1909, returned to Tuscaloosa as a coach for Washington & Lee.