 FACT: When Doc Baugh comes upstairs to tell Brick about Big Daddys  real condition, he examines Bricks leg and discusses football with  him. In the course of that conversation, Brick alludes to a game  played against "Bama State", meaning Alabama State. Bama State  (Alabama State) is a historically black university in Montgomery.  During the 1950s, Bricks college (presumably Ole Miss) would not  have been allowed to play a historically black college. The choice  of "Bama State" by the writers was a factual mistake, in that such a  game could not have occurred under any circumstances in that era.