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  Bud Grant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Harry Peter "Bud" Grant (born May 20, 1927) is best known in the United States as the legendary head coach of the American football team the Minnesota Vikings.
Bud Grant retired after the 1983 season and was followed in the post by Les Steckel, who led the team through a 3–13 season.
Bud Grant is a member of both the Canadian Football Hall of Fame and the U.S. Pro Football Hall of Fame.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bud_Grant   (480 words)

  
 Professional Football Researchers Association- Pro Football History
Bud Grant left Philadelphia and headed north of the border to play for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the CFL for the 1953 through the 1956 seasons.
Bud Grant's talent allowed him to lead the Western Conference of the CFL in pass receptions for the 1953,1954 and 1956 seasons as well as leading in receiving yards for the 1953 and 1956 seasons.
To say that Bud Grant was a great athlete and a successful coach is an understatement considering that he was elected to the CFL Hall of Fame in 1983 and also to the Pro Football HalI of Fame, in Canton, Ohio, in 1994.
www.footballresearch.com /articles/frpage.cfm?topic=grant-b   (530 words)

  
 Scout.com: History: Bud Grant
Bud started in baseball, with an old glove that his father had given him, and a young athlete was launched.
When Bud started with Winnipeg, he was a starter as a receiver on offense and as a halfback on defense and did so for four years and set many team and CFL records in the process.
Yes, Grant held national anthem practices to make the team proud of who they were and to show their patriotism, because by showing how good you look and your pride for your country, the opposition will respect you whether they want to or not.
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 bud
bud, in lower plants and animals, a protuberance from which a new organism or limb develops; in seed plants, a miniaturized twig bearing compressed rudimentary lateral stems (branches), leaves, or flowers, or all three, and protected in cold climates by overlapping bud scales.
The form of winter buds (particularly the larger terminal buds on twigs) of trees and shrubs may be used to identify the species.
budding - budding, type of grafting in which a plant bud is inserted under the bark of the stock (usually not...
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 Mr. Cheer Or Die's Viking Underground: "Bud Grant Essay: Part Five (Final)" by Guest Author Roger Wilk
Bud Grant was a nine varsity letter athlete at the University of Minnesota: four in football, three in basketball and two in baseball.
Bud Grant was a first round draft choice of the Philadelphia Eagles, but opted to play for the Minneapolis Lakers for two years before joining the Eagles.
Bud Grant is a 1994 NFL Hall of Fame Inductee, with a coaching record of 158-96-5.
blog.lib.umn.edu /maasx003/Vikings/043774.html   (1750 words)

  
 Scout.com: History: Team Timeline
Bud Grant was named the second head coach in Vikings history on March 10, 1967.
On Dec. 18, 1984 Bud Grant is rehired as the head coach of the Vikings.
Bud Grant was inducted in the Pro Football Hall of Fame on July 30, 1994 after coaching the Vikings from 1967-83 and 1985.
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 My Way - Sports News
Grant is a consultant these days, and new coach Brad Childress is trying to instill some of Grant's old school attitude into a team that has been in turmoil seemingly since Grant left coaching 21 years ago.
Grant refuses to share his opinions publicly, always shying away from the limelight that so many ego-driven coaches crave.
While coaches, executives, scouts and staff members have full biographies published with their pictures and personal details, Grant's mug shot is lumped in with other low-profile team employees - the winningest coach in franchise history tucked away with the marketing staff, secretaries and the team chef.
sports.myway.com /news/08122006/v3601.html   (665 words)

  
 Grant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Grant variety store, a five and dime chain.
William Grant and Sons, a Scotch whisky distilling company based in Scotland.
Kenneth Grant, a British occultist and head of the Typhonian Ordo Templi Orientis.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grant   (509 words)

  
 Mr. Cheer Or Die's Viking Underground: "Bud Grant Essay: Part One" by Guest Author Roger Wilk
Grant played one more season before opting for more active involvement than he was getting in basketball, to join the Eagles in the 1952 season.
Grant passed on the opportunity at that time, and went on to continued success as head coach of Winnipeg, earning four Grey Cup championships in six appearances, over his ten years as their head coach, with the four championships coming in a span of five years from 1958-62.
Bud's composite record as a CFL coach was as impressive as his NFL coaching career; 106 wins, 56 losses, 2 ties over 10 seasons, including four Grey Cup wins.
blog.lib.umn.edu /maasx003/Vikings/043724.html   (1536 words)

  
 Member - Pro Football Hall of Fame
In Bud Grant's 18 years as head coach of the Minnesota Vikings from1967 through 1983 and a one-year final stint in 1985, his teams compiled a.620 winning percentage (158-96-5) in regular-season play.
Grant, who had just completed a 10-year -tenure as head coach of the highly successful Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League, took over the Vikings in 1967.
Born May 20, 1927, in Superior, Wisconsin, Grant became a nine-letterman athlete at the University of Minnesota.
www.profootballhof.com /hof/member.jsp?player_id=79   (356 words)

  
 News & Events | St. Ambrose University, Davenport, Iowa
Father Robert "Bud" Grant, instructor and service learning coordinator at St. Ambrose University, has received a special recognition award from the Scott County Soil and Water Conservation District.
Grant successfully spearheaded an effort to obtain a $40,000 grant from the Riverboat Development Authority.
In addition, Grant is an active participant and partner in the Scott County Watersheds organization, and serves as the advisor to Greenlife, the St. Ambrose environmental club.
www.sau.edu /news/spring02/frbudaward.htm   (166 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Grant: ‘He's going to find it's different'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
In 1985, Hall of Fame football coach Bud Grant was in a similar predicament as Joe Gibbs, the new coach of the Washington Redskins.
Grant, who had coached the Vikings to 11 division titles and four Super Bowls from 1967-83, came out of retirement in 1985 to stabilize the chaos created by the Vikings' 3-13 record in 1984 under Grant's rookie replacement, Les Steckel.
Grant, 76, says he misses competition but not the work schedule that allows no time off and demands at least 12-hour workdays from July until the end of the season.
www.usatoday.com /sports/football/nfl/2004-01-08-grant-gibbs_x.htm   (541 words)

  
 Travels with Bud: Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Louis Arch, camped out in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, baked in the hot sun of the Nevada Desert, was humbled by the spacious skies and amber fields of grain outside Lawrence, Kansas, and paid his respects at the Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo, Texas.
Here is Bud with a special friend outside the Empire State Building in New York City back in 1985.
With the grant, Bud was able to afford airfare to Alaska and Hawaii.
members.aol.com /tourbud2/journal.htm   (746 words)

  
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In his four year playing career with the Blue Bombers, Grant was a three time all-star and held the Canadian Football League (C.F.L.) record for most interceptions in one game.
Between 1964 and 1966, Grant assumed the additional responsibilities of manager for the football club.
Grant is also a member of Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame, the US Football Hall of Fame and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers Hall of Fame.
www.halloffame.mb.ca /honoured/1984/bGrant.htm   (209 words)

  
 South End Zone: Columns: Wags by Len Wagner: Holmgren, Like Bud Grant, Is In Control
GREEN BAY, WI — Bud Grant, a long-time head coach of the Minnesota Vikings, always was one of my favorite pro football people.
Grant also was something of a maverick in the pro coaching profession because he refused to put in more than an 8-hour day during the week.
Oh, he’s not as much the Great Statue that Grant was on the sidelines but he seems to have a firm hold on his emotions.
www.southendzone.com /columns/?i=wag&d=19981117   (779 words)

  
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Bud Grant is among several prominent Minnesotans named as co-chairman of a coalition promoting a new Vikings stadium.
Grant signed a letter e-mailed to 200,000 Vikings fans asking for their support for the stadium.
Grant says the Vikings plan makes more economic sense than either the Twins or Gopher stadium plans, but says all three should be built.
www.kare11.com /news/ts_article.aspx?storyid=119344   (202 words)

  
 Anoka County Press Release: Bud Grant Speaks in Support of Anoka County Stadium Effort at Business Rally   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Now is the time for the Legislature to come forward," said former Minnesota Vikings Head Coach Bud Grant to over 200 local business leaders who gathered Monday for a luncheon/rally in support of the Anoka County/Blaine stadium effort.
Grant added: "The time to make a decision is now.
Grant was the featured speaker at the event hosted by the MetroNorth Chamber of Commerce, along with the Anoka Area, Ham Lake, and Twin Cities North Chambers of Commerce.
www.co.anoka.mn.us /v1_departments/div-governmental-services/dept-public-information/news-releases/04-04-12-bud-grant.asp   (335 words)

  
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Grant was overseas a month ago as part of a group that entertained the troops.
Former Vikings coach Bud Grant, back from a week of visiting the troops in Iraq with a group of NFL alumni, said the soldiers have a different view about the situation there than what is being told here.
We weren't with the generals." Grant said the one thing the troops wanted to convey was the situation there is not like it is portrayed by the media in this country.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=budgrant   (707 words)

  
 wcco.com - Bud Grant's Legacy Still Looms In Minnesota
I say, 'Hey Bud, how are you doing?' I extend my hand and he says, 'This is the last time I'm shaking your hand in this building -- I'm not going to shake your hand every time I see you.' He has a very dry sense of humor."
While coaches, executives, scouts and staff members have full biographies published with their pictures and personal details, Grant's mug shot is lumped in with other low-profile team employees -- the winningest coach in franchise history tucked away with the marketing staff, secretaries and the team chef.
Grant's 168 wins are 67 more than the next best mark -- Dennis Green.
wcco.com /topstories/local_story_225130242.html   (715 words)

  
 treaty rights
At a recent meeting of the combined boards of directors of the Hunting and Angling Club and PERM (Proper Economic Resource Management), the groups jointly launched an ambitious fundraising effort to "Save Minnesota" property rights and natural resources from Indian lawsuits.
Now, the Fond du Lac and White Earth bands are also suing for their "hunting, fishing and gathering" rights in most of Northern Minnesota.
"Draw a line from Stillwater to St, Cloud to Moorhead, then look at everything north of that line and you get an idea of how much of the state is at issue." says Bud Grant, a long-time spokesman for the groups.
www.citizensalliance.org /links/pages/articles/Bud_Grant_Save_MN.html   (616 words)

  
 Bud Grant
Identification, mapping, and confirmation of a soybean gene for bud blight resistance.(Crop Breeding, Genetics & Cytology)
Functional significance of the co-localization of taste buds and teeth in the pharyngeal jaws of the largemouth bass, Micropterus......
Frying pan to fire: Bud Ovrom starts the next act in his long career as a civil servant, running L.A.'s redevelopment agency.
www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0109234.html   (157 words)

  
 American Football Monthly - The Magazine For Football Coaches
But then, Grant was never the type who believed you needed to put in a 100-hour week just to win a ballgame.
To find Grant, you'd better get dressed up and head for the local fishing hole, or head to a local river or marsh (and don't forget your shotgun).
In many respects, the game has come to embrace the ways and means for which Grant was labeled an oddity by some during his working years.
www.americanfootballmonthly.com /Subaccess/articles.php?p=1999/June\'99/bud.html   (307 words)

  
 Q&A With Bud Grant
So we present to our subscribers- as a special bonus- the remainder of our interview with Bud Grant, conducted by Minnesota Vikings special assistant Chad Ostlund.
It was not a conscious thing, on my part at least, to try and forge a certain relationship or something that the player should try and take with him from me. He could make his own decisions on that.
Grant said all you need to be a successful coach is a patient wife, a loyal dog and a good quarterback, not necessarily in that order.
www.americanfootballmonthly.com /Subaccess/Magazine/1999/June'99/qa.html   (4971 words)

  
 Bud Grant coaching record - pro-football-reference.com
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 1927 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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May 20 - Bud Grant, Canadian and American football coach
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 Bud Grant statistics - pro-football-reference.com
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Bud Grant is not in the all-time top 50 in any major category.
Please read the fine print before sending questions or corrections.
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 Bud Grant - Coach ©Photofile Print at AllPosters.com
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: 2000
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Date January 30, 2000 Stadium Georgia Dome City Atlanta, Georgia MVP Kurt Warner, Quarterback Favorite Rams by 7 National anthem Faith Hill Coin toss Super Bowl IV participants: Bud Grant, Lamar Hunt, Bobby Bell, Paul Krause, Willie Lanier, Alan Page, and Jan Stenerud Referee Bob McElwee Halftime show Phil Collins...
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 Action Alert: Join Former Vikings Coach Bud Grant on Orange Hat Day
Action Alert: Join Former Vikings Coach Bud Grant on Orange Hat Day
You can take action on this alert by reading the information below and following the directions at the bottom.
We will be at the capitol on March 16th to ask for your support.
www.mnaction.org /showalert.asp?aaid=717   (276 words)

  
 Fogdog Sports - Photo File Minnesota Vikings Bud Grant Coach Matted Photo
Fogdog Sports - Photo File Minnesota Vikings Bud Grant Coach Matted Photo
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