6/5/2023 0 Comments Bear bryantJanu– Bryant leads Kentucky to a 20-7 win over TCU in the Cotton Bowl. It ends a 31-game winning streak for Bud Wilkinson’s Sooners. 1 Oklahoma 13-7 in the Sugar Bowl on New Year’s Day, 1951. With a team featuring Babe Parilli, Charlie McClendon and Pat James, the Wildcats stun the college football world by upsetting No. Kentucky’s win over Villanova is the first bowl appearance ever for UK.ġ950 – Bryant guides the Wildcats to an 11-1 record and the only SEC title in school history. One of the losses was 21-7 defeat at the hands of Alabama in a game played in Montgomery.ġ947 – In his second year at Kentucky, Bryant takes the Wildcats bowling, finishing with an 8-3 record, with one of the defeats being a 13-0 shutout at the hands of Alabama in a game played in Lexington. Commander.ġ945 – Four years after almost becoming the head coach at Arkansas, Bryant lands the head coaching position at Maryland and quickly turns the Terps into a winner, going 6-2-1.ġ946 – Bryant accepts the head coaching job at Kentucky and turns a 2-8 team into a 7-3 one. He receives an honorable discharge with the rank of Lt. They turn around and head back to Nashville and Bryant enlists in the Navy.ġ942-44 – Bryant serves in the Navy, in North Africa, before being stationed at North Carolina, where he coached the Pre-Flight Team. Bryant helps the Commodores upset the Tide 7-0 in 1941.ĭecem-Bryant and Hall of Fame New York Yankee catcher Bill Dickey are going to Arkansas where Bryant is in line to be named the head coach of the Razorbacks when they hear news of Pearl Harbor on the radio. Daughter Mae Martin is born.ġ940 – Bryant goes to Vanderbilt as an assistant coach to Red Sanders after being recommended by sports writer and close personal friend Fred Russell. He’s making $170 a month when Frank Thomas calls him home to Alabama as an assistant coach, paying him $1,250 a year. The Tide goes 23-3-2 during his three-year career.ġ936 – Bryant is hired at Union College in Tennessee to install the Notre Dame Box offense. Octo– The legend of Bryant continues to grow as he plays against Tennessee in Knoxville with a broken bone in his left leg and he leads the Tide to a 25-0 victory over the Volunteers. He doesn’t tell Coach Frank Thomas in fear he’ll take away his scholarship. J– Paul Bryant secretly marries Mary Harmon Black in Ozark, Ala. The Crimson Tide claims the national title by a number of polls in the pre-AP era. Crisp leaves with one Paul Bryant.ġ933 – In the first year of the Southeastern Conference, Bryant helps the Crimson Tide to the initial SEC Championship.ġ934 – Paul Bryant becomes known in football folklore as the ‘other end’ to Don Hutson as Alabama goes 10-0 and beats Stanford 29-13 in the Rose Bowl. He didn’t get the buck but he got a nickname.ġ930 – Paul ‘Bear’ Bryant leads his high school team, the Fordyce Red Bugs to a perfect season and a state championship.ġ931 – Alabama assistant coach Hank Crisp comes to Fordyce trying to sign the Jordan twins, who opt to go to Arkansas. Bryant wrestles the bear but the owner and the bear escape without paying. where anyone who will wrestle a bear can win a dollar a minute. He has cleats screwed into his shoes, the only pair he owns, and wears them everywhere he goes.ġ927 – The young teenager goes to the Lyric Theatre in Fordyce. Three of the Bryant children had died in infancy.ġ924 – The Bryant family moves to nearby Fordyce, Ark., a town of 3,600 people.ġ926 – Paul Bryant goes out for football and plays in the first game he ever sees. He is the 11th of 12 children borne by Ida Kilgore and Wilson Monroe Bryant. Moro Bottom was a three-square mile plot of land where seven families lived. Septem– Paul William Bryant is born in Moro Bottoms near Moro Creek in southern Arkansas.
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