Shug: The Life and Times of Auburn’s Ralph ‘Shug’ Jordan by Rich Donnell.  Montgomery, AL: Owl Bay Publishers, 1993, 318 pp. 

Rich Donnell, the author of this affectionate biography of one of Auburn’s most famous football coaches and beloved figures, is an 1977 Auburn alumnus in journalism.  As the dust jacket states, he “tells Jordan’s story, from his birth in Selma, Alabama, on September 25, 1910 to his death in Auburn sixty-nine years later.”