that was one of the stories my granddad and his even older than dirt neighbor across the street would tell me over and over again when i was a kid. they also talked alot about joe sewell. i was lucky as a kid to have a good bit of time to just sit in the room as those two old men reminisced about the good old days in tuscaloosaA UA contemporary of my Mother's. (She knew who he was, but they weren 't friends.) The off-the-bench story v. Rice is one of the first Bama stories I learned as a kid. I believe it was in a collection I had called "Strange But True Sports Stories" or something like that.
RIP, Sir. RTR!