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The Legacies and Lessons of Bear Bryant and Joe Paterno
On this very day 29 years ago, Paul W. Bryant passed away at the age of 69. It is with particular sadness we note this anniversary so soon after the death of Penn State’s own legendary head coach Joe Paterno. In the sphere of college football there have been but a handful of men who can boast...
Coach Bryant's Defensive Theory for the Alabama Crimson Tide
Recently I was poring through the archives over at the Paul W. Bryant Museum and came across a superb summation Alabama's defensive philosophy penned by Coach Bryant in the late 1960s. This is the two-page introduction to the defensive section of Alabama' 1967 playbook which, as far as I can tell,...
Neb Hayden, The University of Alabama
The stories of Alabama players who became legends under Paul W. Bryant are legion. There are dozens of books filled with the stories of young men that learned the most important lessons about life from the legendary coach. Yet Bryant demanded excellence from all the players on his teams and the...
Alabama Football in National Geographic Magazine
In the early 1970s, National Geographic photographer Dick Durrance III traveled to Alabama to capture the essence of the Yellowhammer State for a story penned by Howard La Fay. Their story "Alabama, Dixie to a Different Tune" appeared in the October 1975 issue of the magazine (Vol. 148, No. 4)...
RBR Reading Room: Third Saturday in October
Since the expansion of the Southeastern Conference in 1992, The Third Saturday in October is a name without a tether in reality. Rather than designate a specific weekend on the fall football schedule when the Alabama Crimson Tide and Tennessee Volunteers would meet on the gridiron it has simply...
It's GAMEDAY!
And if we do that as a team...11 at the time...in four years from now, why, we'll be walking out of here national champions. And I tell you this...I expect nothing less. <!-- https://twitter.com/#!/carsontink/status/109961626853191680 --> .bbpBox109961626853191680...
RBR Reading Room: The Basketball Tide
Even when Alabama basketball’s star has shined the brightest, it has been understandably obscured by the glare of Crimson Tide football. Yet, make no mistake, Alabama basketball has shone quite well indeed. In the Southeast Conference the Crimson Tide trail only Kentucky in basketball wins,...
Alabama's 1961 National Championship Season
On Jan. 10, 1958 Paul W. Bryant walked into his first team meeting as head coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide. He was preceded by his reputation and accompanied by that powerful charisma that forced people to pay attention when he entered a room and concentrate for all their worth when he began to...
Alabama vs. Penn State: The Game Programs
September 11, 2010; Tuscaloosa, AL # 1 Alabama 24 - # 18 Penn State 3 Between 1959 and 1990, Alabama and Penn State met on the gridiron a total of 13 times. The first three occasions the two teams faced each other were in high-stakes bowl games but for the entire 1980s the two teams were an annual...
RBR Reading Room: Boys of Autumn/We Believe...
With the death of Paul W. Bryant now almost three decades behind us, the ability to understand the actual stature of the man to those around him is ebbing as well. By all accounts, he possessed a powerful physical presence that game film and online video snippets capture in only the barest...
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