Paul "Bear" Bryant led ... Luckily, for college football fans everywhere, Bryant didn't have the talent to play in the NFL. He joined the Navy after Pearl Harbor, and after completing his service ...

(Editor's note: We published this story in honor of Bear Bryant's 100th birthday ... track for the Arkansas job. 12. Pearl Harbor was bombed on Dec. 7, 1941. Bryant enlisted for the Navy the ...

Larry Lacewell had heard plenty about Alabama head football coach Paul “Bear” Bryant growing up ... that Japanese warplanes had bombed Pearl Harbor. "About all I had time to do when I got ...

See About archive blog posts. Sports columnist Jerry Crowe examines the legacy of legendary Alabama football coach Paul ‘Bear’ Bryant, who established a scholarship fund in the early 1970s ...

September 11, 1913 – Paul William Bryant is born in Moro Bottom, Arkansas. 1927 – A teenaged Bryant agrees to wrestle a bear in Fordyce ... coach when he hears Pearl Harbor is bombed.

In tiny Moro Bottom, Arkansas, Paul William Bryant was born 111 years ago this Wednesday. Most Alabama fans probably know his life story: He earned his nickname by wrestling a bear, he played a ...

Paul W. "Bear" Bryant returned to Tuscaloosa after the 1982 Liberty Bowl, his last game, as college football's all-time winningest coach and a man in need of a retirement plan. Not that his ...

Jan. 14, 1946: Paul “Bear” Bryant is ... the University of Alabama, Bryant held a number of coaching positions. In 1942, after the December 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor, Bryant left his ...