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...Texas A&M and-for the 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...
...Stagg used to say, "No coach ever won a game by what he knows; it's what his players have learned." So perhaps it would be instructive to ask Bryant's players-and his coaches-what they have learned. For instance, Jack Pardee...
...second season of college football starts today, with the first of 19 semi-major or major bowl games--apologies to the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl, the Zia Bowl and others that have already taken place...
...football games. In 35 years as a head coach, Bryant has won 298 games, lost 77 and tied 16. Before the 1980 season reaches its midpoint, he will become only the third coach to win 300 games. Late next year he should pass Pop Warner (313) and Amos Alonzo Stagg (314) to become the coach with the most victories in college-football history. His teams have won 23 games in a row, currently the longest winning streak in big-time college football. Bryant has taken teams to bowl games 26 times (a record); last season's Sugar Bowl appearance...
...handle the job, the terrorists pick Walter Grant, a brilliant, disgruntled mercenary who has been dismissed from the Special Air Service for torturing an Irish prisoner. Samson seems impregnable, but Grant knows otherwise. Captain Jonathon Stagg, Grant's sometime S.A.S. subordinate, sniffs something rotten in the North Sea wind but cannot pinpoint the terrorists' targetor persuade the mandarins of Whitehall that a catastrophe is gathering offshore. The battle of Samson (Stagg suggests that it be code-named Delilah) winds up as a duel of wits and weaponry between...