We’re home to 22 NCAA Division I varsity athletics teams. In 1986, Bryant was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame, and the College Football Coach of the Year Award was renamed in his honor. The case is considered a landmark case because it expanded the definition of who can be considered a "public figure" in libel cases. The 1971 Alabama Crimson Tide football team went undefeated in the regular season and rose to #2 in the AP Poll, but lost to top-ranked Nebraska, 38–6, in the Orange Bowl. Since he elected to leave high school before completing his diploma, Bryant had to enroll in a Tuscaloosa high school to finish his education during the fall semester while he practiced with the college team. In 1962, Bryant filed a libel suit against The Saturday Evening Post for printing an article by Furman Bisher ("College Football Is Going Berserk") that charged him with encouraging his players to engage in brutality in a 1961 game against the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. 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He also served as athletic director while at Texas A&M. Prior to Mater Dei Prep, Gigantino … Danny Ford (Clemson, 1981), Howard Schnellenberger (Miami of Florida, 1983), and Gene Stallings (Alabama, 1992), and one of the Junction Boys, all won national championships as head coaches for NCAA programs while Joey Jones, Mike Riley, and David Cutcliffe are active head coaches in the NCAA. Our student-athletes are high-achievers in the classroom—and on the field and court. Bryant was a heavy smoker and drinker for most of his life, and his health began to decline in the late 1970s. American college football coach Bear Bryant won six national championships at the University of Alabama and retired with a then-record of 323 wins. He was best known as the head coach of the University of Alabama football team. Saban wants pre-draft feedback timetable moved, Dismissed FSU QB apologizes for hitting woman, Papers: Paterno's son asked Meyer for job, Seminoles' Cook didn't hit woman, lawyer says, Top OT recruit Little decommits from Texas A&M. [25] A moment of silence was held before Super Bowl XVII, played four days after Bryant's death. Football running back Barry Sanders set a record with the Detroit Lions in 1997 for rushing more than 2000 yards in one season. [24] He is interred at Birmingham's Elmwood Cemetery. Bryant died in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on January 26, 1983 — one month after coaching his final game. [23] On his hand at the time of his death was the only piece of jewelry he ever wore, a gold ring inscribed "Junction Boys". "We'll be the last football team in the Southwest Conference to integrate", he was told by a Texas A&M official. In 1961, with quarterback Pat Trammell and football greats Lee Roy Jordan and Billy Neighbors, Alabama went 11–0 and defeated Arkansas 10–3 in the Sugar Bowl to claim the national championship. Three-time National Coach of the Year in 1961, 1971, and 1973. Two years later, Bryant led the 1956 Texas A&M Aggies football team to the Southwest Conference championship with a 34–21 victory over the Texas Longhorns at Austin. "There is no better place to work than Bryant University, and while I am excited to pursue new opportunities, this has been the pinnacle of my coaching career. Bryant was honored with a U.S. postage stamp in 1996. He attended Fordyce High School, where 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) tall Bryant, who as an adult would eventually stand 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m), began playing on the school's football team as an eighth grader. Named the head coach of the University of Maryland shortly before his discharge in 1945, Bryant went 6-2-1 in his lone season with the Terrapins. Bryant was selected in the fourth round by the Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1936 NFL Draft, but never played professional football.

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