Word: beare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...series of unintelligent Black Bear penalties (including two minutes assessed to Ray Jacques for flooring Crimson goalie Wade Lau) prevented any kind of comeback for most of the second period, and when Lau robbed Gaeten Bernier on one of the Bears' few chances in the stanza at 16:34, it looked like the senior netminder was on his way to his first career ECAC shutout...
...after two insurance goals (Sheehy on the power play and Turner's second early in the third period) put the game away, Black Bear David Ellis got his team into the scoring summary, beating Lau on a breakaway...
...last, the Bear of Alabama goes over the mountain...
After 315 victories now, after all the history of the past 36 years and after all the hyperbole of the past three weeks, who is this Paul W. ("Bear") Bryant anyway? Let's see. He is a football coach named for a bear (looks a little like a football, a lot like a bear). He is a brilliant coach who was never an innovator. He oversees practices from a tower yet touches each player personally somehow. He is a humanitarian who began accepting black players no earlier than 1970. He is shy, but he is not retiring...
...past 23 years-Alabama, he has won more football games than any other college coach. Numbers are simple. To catch Babe Ruth, all Henry Aaron had to do was hit 35 homers a year for more than 20 years. To catch Amos Alonzo Stagg, all Bear Bryant had to do was win ten games a year for more than 30 years...