Alabama Crimson Tide football is tradition rich with a number of great coaches over the years, and has churned out out some of the most elite athletes that college football has ever seen, but not one compared to the most legendary coach of all time, Paul Bear Bryant .
Paul "Bear" Bryant
Bear Bryant started his career at Alabama as a football player in 1931. He was only 1934 national championship play end. Brian always joked that he was the "other end" that played for "mamma". The other end was the legendary NFL Hall of Famer, Don Hudson. Even bear Bryant's college playing days, he showed mental toughness and playing the 1935 game against Tennessee with a broken leg.
As a head football coach, Bryant went through several college jobs such as Maryland, Kentucky, and Texas A& M before he at long last had the opening to give back to his alma mater, the University of Alabama. So stimulated was Bear Bryant, that he notably was quoted as saying, "Mama called. And when Mama calls, you just have to come runnin'."
It was the year 1958 that Bear Bryant took over the helm , and began leading it to its previous Rose Bowl-style glory but achieved even to greater heights. Producing legendary players like Pat Trammell, Big John Hannah, Snake Stabler, Joe Namath, Lee Roy Jordan, Billy Neighbors, Bob Baumhower, Johnny Musso,, and many others.
Overall, Bear Bryant was a dazzling motivator and knew how to get his players to do what he wanted them to accomplish. Florida A&M coach, Jake Gaither said of Bear Bryant, "He can take his'n and beat you'n, and he can take your'n and beat his'n." The inspiration wasn't just on the turf, the inspiration passed into the world also by the quality he instilled in his players like big John Croyle, who founded the faith-based Christian Big Oak Ranch for unfortunate boys and girls in Springville, Alabama.
The final year that he coached Alabama, 1982, was a down year for Alabama and Bear couldn't see himself coaching Alabama into mediocrity. He always said that if he quit coaching that he "wouldn't last a week." In truth, he didn't last a great deal longer than that, only 37 days. On January 26, 1983, Bryant collapsed and died of a heart attack at age 69 and many mourned his death. Public officials projected that between a half-million to a million individuals were lined along the 53 mile stretch from Tuscaloosa to the graveyard in Birmingham that was only blocks away from Legion Field.
The Legendary Man Changed Alabama and The World
Bear's heritage lives in the players that are now growing older and the fans that recollect his championship heart. Not only that... He helped break segregation in the South's football world, and in doing so, turned the Alabama around from bigotry to magnificence. Not only that, he changed the world to a better place than he left left.. He ain't never been nothing but a winner. Roll Tide!
Paul "Bear" Bryant
Bear Bryant started his career at Alabama as a football player in 1931. He was only 1934 national championship play end. Brian always joked that he was the "other end" that played for "mamma". The other end was the legendary NFL Hall of Famer, Don Hudson. Even bear Bryant's college playing days, he showed mental toughness and playing the 1935 game against Tennessee with a broken leg.
As a head football coach, Bryant went through several college jobs such as Maryland, Kentucky, and Texas A& M before he at long last had the opening to give back to his alma mater, the University of Alabama. So stimulated was Bear Bryant, that he notably was quoted as saying, "Mama called. And when Mama calls, you just have to come runnin'."
It was the year 1958 that Bear Bryant took over the helm , and began leading it to its previous Rose Bowl-style glory but achieved even to greater heights. Producing legendary players like Pat Trammell, Big John Hannah, Snake Stabler, Joe Namath, Lee Roy Jordan, Billy Neighbors, Bob Baumhower, Johnny Musso,, and many others.
Overall, Bear Bryant was a dazzling motivator and knew how to get his players to do what he wanted them to accomplish. Florida A&M coach, Jake Gaither said of Bear Bryant, "He can take his'n and beat you'n, and he can take your'n and beat his'n." The inspiration wasn't just on the turf, the inspiration passed into the world also by the quality he instilled in his players like big John Croyle, who founded the faith-based Christian Big Oak Ranch for unfortunate boys and girls in Springville, Alabama.
The final year that he coached Alabama, 1982, was a down year for Alabama and Bear couldn't see himself coaching Alabama into mediocrity. He always said that if he quit coaching that he "wouldn't last a week." In truth, he didn't last a great deal longer than that, only 37 days. On January 26, 1983, Bryant collapsed and died of a heart attack at age 69 and many mourned his death. Public officials projected that between a half-million to a million individuals were lined along the 53 mile stretch from Tuscaloosa to the graveyard in Birmingham that was only blocks away from Legion Field.
The Legendary Man Changed Alabama and The World
Bear's heritage lives in the players that are now growing older and the fans that recollect his championship heart. Not only that... He helped break segregation in the South's football world, and in doing so, turned the Alabama around from bigotry to magnificence. Not only that, he changed the world to a better place than he left left.. He ain't never been nothing but a winner. Roll Tide!
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