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 ...

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 ...

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.

When Gordon could not gain another yard, Tennessee football coach Bowden Wyatt outmaneuvered the legendary Paul “Bear” Bryant ... He caught a high snap and set the football on the tee.