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  Bear Bryant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1927, he successfully wrestled a muzzled bear for a theater promotion, after which he was given the nickname "Bear." The nickname remained with Bryant for the rest of his life, nevertheless he was not fond of the nickname and acquaintances would never refer to him as such in his presence.
Bryant was then said to have gone to Alabama governor Albert Brewer personally as the university's athletic director to request a change in policy with regard to the granting of athletic scholarships to fls.
Bryant is buried in Birmingham in Elmwood Cemetery; a crimson line is painted on the road from the entrance of the cemetery that leads directly to his gravesite.
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 The Story of Bear Bryant
Bryant was enamored of the University of Alabama.
Bryant said that he'd be back after the bowl game and that when he got back, they were going to work - and those who were winners would be around to see the rewards, and those who weren't, wouldn't.
Bryant saw good fl Alabama players were moving out of state, then coming back and beating his teams (witness USC the prior year.) Bryant knew this was an unfair disadvantage and the trend had to change if he was to continue winning.
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 ESPN Classic - Bear Bryant 'simply the best there ever was'
Bryant's first training camp as Texas A&M coach did much to write his legacy as a disciplinarian: Bryant took his "Junction Boys" to a small Texas town and ran a boot camp in which more than two-thirds of his players quit.
Bryant's father, Monroe, was a farmer and his mother, Ida Mae, tended to the family.
Bryant's six-year contract was for $25,000 per season plus it called for him to receive an unprecedented one percent of the gate.
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 Bear Bryant - MSN Encarta
Bear Bryant (1913-1983), American college football coach, who retired with a record 323 coaching victories.
His 1964, 1965, 1973, and 1978 teams were also ranked number one in one or more polls, but his 1979 team was the only one to be ranked first unanimously in the postseason polls.
In 1981 Bryant broke University of Chicago coach Amos Alonzo Stagg’s record of 314 coaching victories.
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 Montgomery Advertiser : : Bear Bryant   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The exploits of Paul "Bear" Bryant were legendary even before he died of a massive heart attack on Jan. 26, 1983.
Bryant, the master chef, had plenty of ingredients to make a winner, but none of his pupils had the whole formula.
Bryant won in different generations, from players with crew-cuts to those with long hair, from the infancy of integration to the problems of drug abuse.
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Bryant went to the hospital for a checkup on Jan. 25, 1983.
Bryant was always one to care for others, even if they were not involved with the Alabama athletics program.
What made Bryant such a great coach, according to those who played and coached for him, was the way he motivated people and made them realize that fear wasn't an excuse.
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 Bryant, Bear - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
BRYANT, BEAR [Bryant, Bear] (Paul Bryant), 1913-83, American football coach, b.
Bryant retired with 323 wins, the record for coaches in the top-rated Division I-A until Joe Paterno surpassed it in 2001.
Franchione is no Bear Bryant, but he's trying to be anyway.
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 Bear (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bear community, a subculture of the gay community consisting of large, hairy, and usually bearded, men
Bear the Diesel Engine, a locomotive character from The Railway Series books by Rev.
Bear Bryant, an American college football player, who coached at several institutions, most notably his alma mater, the University of Alabama
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Bear Bryant coach paul bear bryant alabama football crimson tide university of alabama football coach bear bryant
Coach Bryant, upon calling Auburn at 6 AM only to find out that none of the coaches were in their offices yet.
Bryant, when asked why he was so successful as a coach.
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 Paul 'Bear' Bryant
Bear was an all-state high school football player and later played college football for the University of Alabama.
Bear Bryant retired after the 1982 season with an overall record of 323-85-17.
Bryant was national coach of the year three times, SEC coach of the year eight times.
www.knowsouthernhistory.net /Biographies/Bear_Bryant   (1957 words)

  
 Paul "Bear" Bryant St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Bryant home was made up of four small rooms, a big dining room, and a little upstairs area; but Paul thought of it as a plantation, and in the mornings and evenings before and after school, he worked behind the plow.
Bryant played college football at the University of Alabama on the same team as Don Hudson, who was thought to be the greatest pass-catching end in football in 1934.
After his death, Bryant's heartfelt eulogies describing what the Bear meant to Alabama, to coaching, and to the players who had been molded by him, led author Mickey Herkowitz to conclude that college football without Bryant would be like New Year's Eve without a clock.
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 Paul W.Bryant Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Football got Bryant out from behind a plow and in front of a crowd when he was growing up in Morro Bottom, Arkansas.
Bryant was national coach of the year three times, SEC coach of the year eight times, coached six national championship teams and on November 28, 1981, he became the winningest coach in the history of college football.
Bryant retired from coaching with an astonishing 323 victories.
bryantmuseum.ua.edu   (253 words)

  
 Montgomery Advertiser : : Bear Bryant   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
They ranged from a Bryant pocket knife (latest bid: $4.95) and belt buckle ($9.95) to a signed photo from 1978 -- one of Bryant's six national championship seasons -- that was going for $200.
Bryant was part of a four-stamp Legends of Football series the United States Postal Service released in 1997.
Bryant's name also has drawn attention to a high school that has yet to hold its first class and interest to the school that won't play its first football game until this fall.
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 Alabama Football: Paul "Bear" Bryant Era
Bryant was named national coach of the year, and the USC win was his 200th.
Expectations were high at the beginning of the '76 season but as Bryant warned, Bama was in the middle of a rebuilding year.
Bryant won 6 National Championships at Alabama, was named national coach of the year 3 times, SEC coach of the year 10 times and was inducted into the National Football Foundation College Football Hall of Fame in 1986.
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 Bear Bryant Alabama Football redelephants Coach Paul Bear Bryant
Bear was an all-state high school football player in high school and later played college football for the University of Alabama.
From 1958 to 1982, Bryant led the crimson tide to twenty-eight straight victories, a record that catapulted The University to the top in national college football history.
Bryant once said, "Winning isn't everything, but it sure beats coming in second." Under his leadership, rarely did the Tide come in second.
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 College Football Hall of Fame
Bryant was head coach at Maryland for one year-1945, Kentucky eight years 1946-53, Texas A&M four years 1954-57, and Alabama 25 years 1958-82.
Bryant won five games his first year, made a bowl his second year, and was national champion his fourth year.
Bryant was born in Moro Bottom, Arkansas on Sept.
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 Bear Bryant - Moviefone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Bear Bryant won 323 games and had only one losing season in 38 years.
In 1927, he successfully wrestled a muzzled bear for a theater promotion, after which he was given the nickname "Bear." The nickname remained with Bryant...
Bear Bryant - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, Bear Bryant Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
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 Rolltidebama.com - Alabama Football - Bama Quotes
He'll be after their asses!" Former Tide coach Hank Crisp, talking of Paul Bryant the player, who had a broken leg and had not expected to play.
There ought to be two Hall of Fames, one for Coach Bryant and one for everybody else." Ozzie Newsome, upon his induction to the Alabama Hall of Fame.
Don't y'all take your football seriously?" Coach Bryant, upon calling Auburn at 6 AM only to find out that none of the coaches were in their offices yet.
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 Salon.com News | Gridiron general
Bear looked like a cross between John Wayne and George C. Scott in "Patton" and no actor looks like that, which is probably why they never got a decent movie made about Bear.
If Berenger doesn't actually look like Bryant, he does a more than passable impersonation of a man in his 40s from a hard-scrabble Depression upbringing to whom winning football games was literally a matter of survival.
Berenger's Bryant is a work in progress, a man in transition trying to accommodate himself to the realities of life and football in the Eisenhower boom era.
www.salon.com /news/sports/col/barra/2002/12/07/bryant   (1256 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Coach: The Life of Paul "Bear" Bryant: Books: Keith Dunnavant   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Bryant (1913-1983) retired in 1982 as the winningest coach in major college football history, with 323 victories, more than either of the legends Amos Alonzo Stagg or Pop Warner.
Bryant, the legendary football coach for the University of Alabama Crimson Tide, set a major college record of 323 wins during his storied career.
Most Bryant biographies lack depth and real analysis, and mostly just repeat common knowledge such as "Mama called", etc. However, this particular book thoroughly analyzes and details Bryant as he grew up in the Moro Bottoms of rural Arkansas, and what were the influences that shaped his life.
www.amazon.com /Coach-Life-Paul-Bear-Bryant/dp/0312348762   (1395 words)

  
 Paul Bear Bryant Quotes, Biography, Collectibles
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Paul Bear Bryant passed away, yet his legendary status and influence continue to grow as the years go by.
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 Bear Bryant redelephants gift shop
Bear Bryant Story This is from the book "Bo" about the coaching life of Bo Shembechler.
Anyhow, Bear was head coach of the East, and I was his assistant, along with Tubby Raymond, from Delaware.
Bear was wearing his traditional button-down shirt and checkered hat.
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 Amazon.com: The Last Coach: A Life of Paul "Bear" Bryant: Books: Allen Barra   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Bear Bryant, who won more games as a college football coach than anyone except Joe Paterno, died in 1983, but he was recently catapulted back into national prominence via Jim Dent's best-selling Junction Boys (1999), an account of Bryant's first year at Texas A&M, and by the well-received HBO adaptation of Dent's book.
Bryant was born in 1913 in a tiny Arkansas hamlet called Moro's Bottom.
The fact is, Bear Bryant and John McKay teamed up to do something great, and in losing that day, the "real winner was Alabama," as Jim Murray of the L.A. Times observed.
www.amazon.com /Last-Coach-Paul-Bear-Bryant/dp/0393059820   (1694 words)

  
 The Last Coach: A Life of Paul "Bear" Bryant - Leadershop @ LeadershipNow.com
When Paul William "Bear" Bryant died on January 26, 1983, it was the lead story on the all three networks' evening news.
The real Bear Bryant was far more complex than either his admirers or detractors knew.
The eleventh of thirteen children, Bryant was born in tiny Moro Bottom, Arkansas in 1913 and grew up in nearby Fordyce—where his legend was born when he wrestled a live bear on the stage of a local theater.
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 Birthplace of Paul "Bear" Bryant   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
According to the sign in the yard, famed Alabama football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant was born in this house a couple of miles southeast of Fordyce on highway 8.
But Kingsland has a famous son in Johnny Cash and Bryant went to Fordyce High School where he played for the fightin' Redbugs, so by local convention Fordyce gets to claim him.
He got his nickname "Bear" from an imprudent act of youthful vigor in which he wrestled a bear at a carnival.
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