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Bryant was born in Kingsland, Arkansas on September 11, 1913. In 1931, as a player with the Fordyce High School Redbugs of Fordyce, Arkansas, he won the 1931 Arkansas High School Football State Championship.
He attended the University of Alabama and played on its football team. He played in the 1935 Rose BowlFor the cricket ground in Southampton, England, see Rose Bowl, Southampton. The Rose Bowl is both the name of an annual American college football game usually played on January 1, and also the name of the stadium in Pasadena, California where the game is after a 10-0-0 season. He graduated in 1936Events January-February January 15 The first building to be completely covered in glass is completed in Toledo, Ohio, for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company. January 20 Death of George V of the United Kingdom. His son Edward VIII succeedes him as King of th. The team's combined record during Bryant's college playing years was 23-3-2. Bryant later served as an assistant coach for four years at the University of Alabama; the team achieved a record of 29-5-3 during this period.
He served in the United States NavyThe United States Navy USN is the branch of the United States armed forces responsible for naval operations. Navy consists of slightly fewer than 300 ships and over 4,000 operational aircraft. It has over a half million men and women on active or ready re during World War IIWorld War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the world's nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. The war was fough and achieved the rank of Lieutenant Commander.
After returning from the warFor other uses of War, see War (disambiguation). War is conflict, between relatively large groups of people, which involves physical force inflicted by the use of weapons. Other terms for war include armed conflict hostilities and police action''. See Lim and serving briefly as an assistant coach at Vanderbilt UniversityVanderbilt University is a private, independent university located in Nashville, Tennessee. It was founded as the result of a gift of one million dollars by shipping and rail magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt in 1873. He hoped that this gift and the work of th, Bryant was head coach at the University of MarylandThe University of Maryland, College Park (also known as College Park, UMCP, UMD, or U Maryland) is a public coeducational university situated in suburban Maryland outside Washington, DC. It is the flagship university of the University System of Maryland. for one season, the University of Kentucky for eight seasons, and Texas A&M University for four seasons, before returning to the University of Alabama. He coached at Alabama for 25 seasons, winning national titles in 1961, 1964, 1965, 1973, 1978, and 1979. In his career he participated in a total of 31 post-season bowl games including 24 consecutively at Alabama. He had 15 bowl wins, including eight Sugar Bowls, was a 10-time Southeastern Conference Coach of the Year and a four-time National Coach of the Year.
Bryant presided over a turbulent time in the history of the university, in particular with racial relations in Alabama in the 1960s. He and basketball coach C. M. Newton are credited with bringing the school's sports programs into the modern era. After losing to an exceptional Michigan State University team in a bowl game only to learn that the opponents' star running back was a young African American from Mobile, Bryant is said to have gone to the governor of Alabama personally, as the university's athletic director, to request a change in policy with regard to the granting of athletic scholarships to blacks, which was granted. Also in the 1960s, The Saturday Evening Post ran a story alledging that Bryant had been overheard conspiring with another coach to fix their Southeastern Conference football game. Bryant sued the Post for libel and was eventually awarded $360,000, a quite-considerable sum in that era which hastened the demise of the weekly Post as a general-interest magazine and putting it out of business entirely for a while (the current Post is now a bimonthly publication specializing in nostalgia and published by an entirely different ownership and managment).
Bryant announced his retirement as head football coach at Alabama effective with the end of the 1982 season. His last game was a Liberty Bowl in Memphis, Tennessee versus the University of Illinois. He intended to stay on as athletic director; however Bryant died on January 26, 1983, less than a month after his final game, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where a major street is named in his honor and there is a museum dedicated to him on the campus of the University of Alabama.
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