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Joe Namath’s name as captain of the 1965 football team is memorialized below Denny Chimes along with all of the other captains and co=captains before and since. The University of Alabama refused to allow Namath to use his middle name “Willie” on the cement slab because in 1965 they did not allow nicknames. Years later he got permission and added his middle name along with his cleat imprints – upper right corner.
Co-captain Kenny Snake Stabler was allowed to have his nickname on the concrete slab by the time he graduated.
Co-captain Trent Richardson from the 2011 National Championship football team.
Co-captain Don’t’a Hightower from the 2011 National Championship football team.
Co-captain Mark Barron from the 2011 National Championship football team.
Denny Chimes is a 115 ft (35 m) clock tower erected in 1929 on the University of Alabama’s Quad. The carillion contains 25 cast bronze bells with the largest measuring 11 ft (3 m) across.
The funds were raised to build the tower after a rumor spread across campus that President George Denny was going to resign and take a job so he could return to his home state of Virginia. When the students presented the promise of a clock tower, he decided to remain as president.
It has been a custom since the tower was built to place the names of the co-captains of each year’s football team engraved in cement blocks on the sidewalk around the carillon.
Denny Chimes is a 115-foot (35 m) tall campanile tower on the south side of The Quad at the University of Alabama, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The tower was named in honor of George H. Denny, who served as university president from 1912 to 1936 and then again in 1941.
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