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...assignment to shoot Bear Bryant, Leifer says, "Pictures for TIME require so much more than game action. I've covered an awful lot of football at Alabama, but I'd never even met Bryant before. This time I had to shoot him at home with his wife and in his office, as well as on the football field." Leifer found him a very private man, but surprisingly cooperative. "He even allowed me to shoot him in front of the bench, where no one is usually permitted. From a distance, he seems aloof, uninvolved. It is only from...
Changing with the times, 'Bama 's Bear Bryant dominates the college game...
...dimension, there can be no disputing that, and over the years his friends and foes have praised or damned him in outsize terms. To the rabid, almost reverential followers of his University of Alabama football teams, Paul William ("Bear") Bryant is a nearly mythic figure, a man who embodies the traditional American values: dedication, hard work, honesty and, above all, success. To the frustrated fans of the legions of teams he has defeated, he is a relentlessly slippery recruiter, a ruthless win-at-all-costs tyrant. To some, he is the demigod of the autumn religion, the finest coach...
...exaggerations miss the point. For all his drill-field discipline, Bryant is not John Wayne with a whistle, a link to vague frontier tenets presumed lost. The most closely scrutinized coach in America, he could not get away with being a bagman for postadolescent jocks even if he tried. Nor is he a helmet-bashing maniac who views Saturday afternoons in the stadium as the moral equivalent of Dday. He is, at times, treated a bit too royally by those who vest football with more importance than it deserves. But he is also scorned too savagely by those...
Today Bear Bryant unquestionably is the dominant figure in college football, but he began to make his mark in another age-the late 1940s, when Harry Truman was still in the White House. Bryant is that rare man who has changed with his times, the only one of his generation to coach as successfully in an era when football players use hair dryers in the locker room as he did when they wore crew cuts. "Thirty-five years makes a long time," he reflects. "A lot of good, a lot of bad, some things you did that were smart, some...