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  • How an Alabama legend ended up tending peach trees in Waynesboro

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• How Pooley Hubert set Alabama football standard 100 years ago (tuscaloosanews.com) — Waynesboro readers may be surprised to learn that Alabama football great Pooley Hubert spent his later years quietly tending peach trees here in Burke County and coaching at Edmund Burke Academy. This retrospective looks back a century to his gritty 1925 season and Rose Bowl heroics that helped launch Alabama’s national football legacy, while briefly tracing how he eventually settled into a gentler life in Waynesboro.
   

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