![]() On June 2, 1935, Bryant wed Troy, Pike County, native Mary Harmon Black. During their playing days at Alabama, Bryant was known as “the other end” to Hutson, and the pair became lifelong friends and business partners. At UA, Bryant joined fellow Arkansan Don Hutson, who would become a legendary star at Alabama and in the National Football League with the Green Bay Packers. Bryant, in his senior year in high school, was a member of the 1930 Arkansas state football champion “Red Bugs.”īryant was recruited by the University of Alabama’s football team but had to take additional classes at the local high school to meet the university’s admission requirements because he had not graduated from high school. During the match the bear’s muzzle came off and Bryant jumped out of the ring and did not get paid in the confusion. While attending a sideshow at the Lyric Theater, Bryant was unable to resist the offer of a dollar-a-minute to wrestle a bear. A visit from a traveling circus resulted in the teenage Bryant earning the nickname that became permanently associated with his name. His father was disabled much of his life, forcing Bryant and his siblings to work on the family farm.Īs Bryant neared his teens, the family moved to the nearby town of Fordyce, where the large-framed boy (six feet one and 180 pounds at age 13, according to some sources) played football and basketball for Fordyce High School. Bryant was raised in the poor rural South. The local farmers identified with the creek’s bottom land as home, hence the references to Bryant being from “Moro Bottom.” He was the 11th of 12 children born to the couple three others had died in infancy. Moro Creek was the nearest geographic landmark. His birth certificate lists Kingsland as the place of birth as it was the nearest town. ![]() Paul William Bryant was born to William Monroe and Ida Kilgore Bryant September 11, 1913, in rural Cleveland County, Arkansas. Bryant is best known, however, for his tenure at the University of Alabama, where he led the Crimson Tide to six national championships, 24 bowl games, 13 conference titles, and three undefeated seasons. His ability to connect with and motivate players created winning programs at several schools. His son plays for Nick Saban, and his grandpa was Bear Bryant…great conversation today with Marc Bryant Tyson who gave his take on the Greatest Of All Time debate: “Bear” Bryant (1913-1983) is considered the world’s greatest college football coach and remains one of the most successful coaches in history. But if Saban keeps having success and adding accolades, that may make it easier to decide. He owns a 256-65-1 career head-coaching record, which includes going 165-23 with the Crimson Tide.īryant won six national titles (all at Alabama) and finished with a 323-85-17 all-time head-coaching record, which included going 232-46-9 with the Crimson Tide.Īnd although Tyson has now weighed in, the debate is still likely to continue. Saban has won a record seven national championships, six of which have come at Alabama. “To then top it off this year, being the Coach of the Year in the hardest year ever in college football, I would just kind of say - and to a similar answer that Papa said after beating Ohio State and Woody Hayes when he was asked, ‘Well, who’s the greatest coach?’ Or whatever - I’ll say that Saban is the GOAT of all time, but Papa wasn’t bad himself.” I mean, that’s unbelievable, and he’s lost seven or eight people off his staff every year. ![]() “And then the fact of the coaching changes that he had - he’s won it with six offensive coordinators. This is by far the greatest run in college football history,” Tyson said on the show. Tyson appeared on “The Paul Finebaum Show” on Thursday and weighed in on the conversation.
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