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After 38 seasons, Paul William Bryant retires from coaching...
...Alabama, where Bear Bryant is next to godliness, for once it was left to a football coach to raise an outcry against himself. "I'm going to alert the president of the university and anybody who wants to know," Bryant said a month and a half ago, after Alabama's second loss of the season in nine games, "that we need to make some changes, and we need to start...
...Crimson Tide also lost the next week, and the week after that. One measure of Bryant's place in college football is that he is the only coach alive who could lose three straight games without failing anyone but himself. One measure of the man is that last week he fired himself...
...other coach to Adolph Rupp at Kentucky, the scourge of Texas A&M, the sage of Alabama, the supreme being of college football. George Blanda, his quarterback at Kentucky 34 years ago, was the first to note the resemblance. "This must be what God looks like," Blanda said. Bryant's face is brown and as rutted as the erosion of a dried-up riverbed. Under his Henry Higgins hat, the fire in his eyes could burn a hole in a vault. The twinkle in them can melt a (recruit's) mother's heart. George Wallace always expressed...
...Bryant coached his teams to 322 victories against just 84 losses and even ties...