Banner Graphic, Volume 13, Number 120, Greencastle, Putnam County, 27 January 1983 — Page 9

Bear Bryant

Death shocks not only Alabama, but entire country

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) As a youth, he wrestled a bear. As a man. he wrestled with something else a drive for perfection the world of college football had never seen before. Paul William ‘■Bear" Bryant craggyfaced, gravel-voiced, the toughest kind of field master, the softest touch to friends in need is dead at 69. Flags at the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery flew at half-staff today as though a national hero had fallen. And for many, including the president of the United States, one had. "We Americans lost a hero who always seemed larger than life," President Reagan said as eulogies for Bryant came in from every corner of the country. Bryant, four weeks to the day after he shuffled off into retirement as the w’inningest coach in the history of his sport, died Wednesday of a heart attack, a death that stunned Alabama’s followers and reduced strong young athletes to fears. "Quit coaching? I’d croakun a week," he once said. It took almost a month. The entire 1982 Alabama football team a squad that struggled to an un-Bryant-like 8-4 record but capped the Bear’s career with a 2115 victory over Illinois in his final game at the Libery Bowl last Dec. 29 will serve as honorary pallbearers at funeral services Friday. Eight will be selected to carry the casket of Bryant, who earned his fabled nickname as a youth when he wrestled a bear in a traveling circus. He will be buried at Elmwood Cemetery in Birmingham after sendees at the First Methodist Church in Tuscaloosa. Many of the foremost figures in college football are expected to attend, many of them Bryant disciples who played or coached under him during the course of his record-setting 38year career. Bryant’s death, caused by a sudden massive heart attack at a hospital one day after he was admitted with chest pains, left Crimson Tide followers in tears. Some wept on the air as radio stations broke off regular programming to open call-in shows about Bryant. The death was also mourned at the highest levels of government. Reagan eulogized Bryant as “a hard, but loved, taskmaster. Patriotic to the core, devoted to his players and inspired by a winning spirit that would not quit, Bear Bryant gave this country the gift of a life unsurpassed."

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PAU L 'BEAR' BRYANT: Symbol of college football excellence

Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace, ordering flags at the capitol lowered, called Bryant “a man among men who brought great fame and honor to Alabama." Bryant captured the imagination of many by sending his often small, always welldisciplined teams to the top of the rankings, winning national titles in 1961.1964 and 1965. Later he would add two more in 1978 and 1979 and closed his career with a 323-85-17 record. He passed Amos Alonzo Stagg's mark of 314 career victories in 1981. Bryant's death was unexpected, even though he suffered from mild heart trouble in recent years. His doctor, William A. Hill, said Bryant's heart stopped at 12:24 p.m., CST, Wednesday and efforts to restore his heartbeat began immediately. “We did put a pacemaker through his chest and were able to restore a weak heartbeat" for about an hour. Hill said. Bryant was declared

dead at 1:30 p.m. Hill said Bryant suffered “a sudden cardiopulmonary arrest" only moments after appearing in good spirits, joking with nurses and making plans for a duck hunting trip to his native Arkansas. He said the cause of death was “a massive coronary occlusion." Members of Bryant’s family, including his wife, Mary Harmon Bryant, were summoned to Druid City Hospital and were present when he w as pronounced dead. Ray Perkins, the former Alabama star and New York Giants coach who was picked to succeed Bryant last month, learned of the death while on a recruiting trip in North Carolina and planned to cut short his trip and return to Tuscaloosa. Bryant, whose 38-year career spanned coaching stints at Maryland, Kentucky, Texas

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A&M and finally Alabama for the last quartercentury, sent players like Joe Namath, Lee Roy Jordan, Ken Stabler and Richard Todd to the pros. He went to Maryland in 1945, fresh from serving in the Navy during World War 11, began his career with a 60-6 rout of Guilford and finished his first year as a head coach with a 6-2-1. Some 317 victories were still to come. Alabama had won a total of only four games in the three years before Bryant came home hearing “Mama call," as he put it. His first Crimson Tide team went 5-4-1. His second one went 7-2-2, inaugurating the Liberty Bowl and a record 24 consecutive bowl trips for Alabama. In 1961. Alabama won its first national title with an 11-0 season. A legend at Alabama had been born. A legend now reserved to memory.

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