sentences:  SIAA Conference championships won by the Auburn college's football team brought attention and support to Auburn, and helped fill the city's coffers.Fortunes were quickly reversed with the collapse of cotton prices in the early 1920s and the subsequent Great Depression a decade later.Due to these events, the state government became unable to fund the college, and—as Auburn's economy was completely derived from the college—residents were forced into a barter economy to support themselves.