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...Coach Bryant tries for another national title for Alabama...
There are no reliable witnesses left, as is usually the case with the stuff of legends, so no one really knows how young Paul William Bryant fared against that carny bear in Fordyce, Ark. Some say he lasted the $5 limit, at a dollar per minute, and collected his money; others insist that the scrawny old beast tossed the local boy off the stage of the Lyric Theater in short order. Bryant claims he has the scars to prove he was there, but the only thing that really matters is that the episode gave the boy a nickname to grow...
This fierce football domain is Bear Bryant's briar patch. He was born and raised in it, coming out of Moro Bottom, Ark., with one good pair of shoes to play for the University of Alabama in the mid-'30s. He was the other end on the team that beat Stanford in the 1935 Rose Bowl, doing the blocking while All-America Don Hutson set records for pass catching. He wanted to coach, naturally, and worked his way up to Maryland and then gave Kentucky its only Southeastern Conference title-and an N.C.A.A. probation for recruiting violations...
...much at Alabama's expense since then. This New Year's Day No. 2-ranked Alabama plays in its 20th consecutive bowl game. The match-up against top-ranked Penn State will decide the national championship, and if Alabama wins, it will be the fifth title of Bryant's reign. It will also mark Victory No. 284 for Bryant, 30 fewer than the alltime record held by Amos Alonzo Stagg...
...Bryant used to be dogged by horror stories about his tough methods, but he has mellowed considerably, and the mountains gladly come to Muhammad. Says Offensive Tackle Jim Bunch: "Every boy who plays high school football wonders what it would be like to play for Coach Bryant and wishes that he could. It doesn't matter where you grow up, Coach Bryant is the standard everyone wants to measure himself...