Bear Bryant was a great man and coach, and he changed his life and college football forever with the decisions that he made. Paul Bryant (Bear) was born into a poor family and was the eleventh of twelfth children. Paul William Bryant was born in Moro Bottom in Arkansas. It's a small, unknown city. Legend has it Bryant got his nickname around the year 1927 by wrestling a bear from a carnival. People say that he only did it to impress a girl! From then on he was called "Bear Bryant" and that's where his legend begins. While the bear's owner left town without paying Bear got to take something home with him better than money... a story to tell your kids in the future. (100 years of Bear). When he was young every morning he would plow the fields …show more content…
Bryant took an assistant coaching job at Vanderbilt in 1940 under Red Sanders. He had a falling out with Sanders after one year and, with the help of New York Yankees catcher Bill Dickey, had the inside track for the Arkansas job. (100 years). Bear Bryant got the job, but heard on the radio, soon after that the Japanese bombed pearl harbor. Bear joined the Navy for a couple year, putting his football coaching career on hold (The story of Bear Bryant). After the Navy, Bear Bryant turned the wildcats into winners. His stats were 7-3 his first year coaching them. In 1954, he packed up and headed west to Texas A&M. He had the master formula for success, and wanted to test it out at another school. But Bryant inherited an awful program with few good players. Texas A&M was a tough place to lure players to. No girls, no glamour, military uniforms and, at first glance, the school looked more like a penitentiary than a college campus. Bryant knew he had to force discipline and strictness in order for A&M to compete. One day during summer practice, he loaded the unsuspecting Aggies in two buses to Junction, Texas for what was arguably the toughest training camp in football history. Bear Bryant was …show more content…
Gene Stallings, who was one of Bryant's players at the time, said, "We left in two buses and came back in one, and that one was half full." Bryant put his team through hell at Junction because he wanted to build character and have his players realize that things were going to be done his way. They finished the season 1-9, Bear's only losing record as a head coach! The foundation had been placed and in 1956, the Aggies won the Southwest Conference championship. In 1957, halfback John David Crow received the Heisman Trophy, the only player coached by Bryant to receive the award. After a few years in 1958 Bear Bryant joined Alabama, but this time...he was head coach. Bear once said “What are you doing here? Tell me why you are here. If you are not here to win a national championship, you’re in the wrong place. You boys are special. I don’t want my players to be like other students. I want special people. You can learn a lot on the football field that isn’t taught in the home, the church, or the classroom. There are going to be days when you think you’ve got no more to give and then you’re going to give plenty more. You are going to have pride and class. You are going to be very special. You are going to win the national championship for Alabama.” Bear knew how to give moving pre game speeches. It makes you think abut how much he cared for his football player. Bear dedicated his life to football, but he
Bill Belichick got most of his education on football coaching from his father Steve Belichick. Compared to Bill, his dad was not a famous football coach although he was known for his incredible ability to break down and exploit game film. Bill as a football player himself learned a lot from his coach and father, Steve Belichick. With this knowledge and his genius, he made a lot of his dreams and the dreams of the fans' come true.
CRAFT KEVIN, “The Enduring Lesson of Michigan's Fab Five: Winning Really Isn't Everything.” APR 10, 2013.
I very much enjoyed The Legend of Colton H. Bryant by Alexandra Fuller. It captured me right away in the beginning scene of Colton racing away from the Kmart Kids on his bicycle. I loved how Colton could take a sad event and turn it into a lighter topic. For example, in the first chapter, Colton was being bullied and harassed. Even though he was crying, he made it lighter by chanting his mantra “‘Mind over matter. I don’t mind so it don’t matter.’” (Fuller 7) There are other examples of Colton behaving in this matter. This is an aspect that I enjoyed in reading this book. How she developed her characters and so on made me fascinated.
Coach Courtney also helped the football player's build character. He did this by making all the players be good sportsmen. This meaning he made sure the players were kind and supported
Not many people think Arkansans are smart or will be famous, but there are some famous Arkansans. He was born on September 11, 1913 at Fordyce, Arkansas, and he died on January 26, 1983, in Tuscaloosa, AL and was buried at Elmwood Cemetery, Alabama. He became a college football player, and later to become a college football coach. He was known as the longtime head coach of the University of Alabama football team. His name is Paul William 'Bear' Bryant (Hendricks).
Teddy Roosevelt’s early life affected how he interacted with football. Roosevelt was a sickly child while growing up and was not able to play football or any other other sports. Although Roosevelt could not participate in football he got to see
Bryant should go to trial. He will have to defend himself against the accusation of having raped a 19-year-old girl on June 30, 2003, when he was in a hotel in the tourist area of Colorado.
"It's about heart. It's about who can go out there and play the hardest. Who can go out there and play the smartest." Spoken by Don Haskins. He said these words before the 1966 NCAA championship, in which he won.
To start with, Desmond Bryant’s mother was not able to be there for Bryant and his siblings. Notably, NFL online source explains when Dez was only eight years old he witnessed his mother get taken to jail. His mother would serve an 18 month prison sentence putting Dez and his sibling into jeopardy. Hence, Dez used perseverance to focus on his dreams even though he was going through a hard time. In other circumstances, the children Dez Bryant has put into this world have a father figure. For example ESPN online source states that Dez is a great father, and role model for his kids. Given these points, Dez used perseverance to succeed in becoming a good dad. In addition, coming into the NFL Bryant was a troubled player, and got himself into a little bit of trouble. To illustrate, Yahoo sports online source reports that when Dez Bryant was at OSU he accepted lunch from Deion Sanders resulting in a suspension consequence. This affecting his draft stock, causing NFL teams and scouts to view him as a troubled player. In conclusion, although Dez had a label of a trouble maker. Dez would persevere to become one of the league’s top
Bryant is anti-Civil War and pro-unity but pro-Lincoln. Bryant sent many opinionated letters to Lincoln, which were greatly appreciated by the President, but Bryant spoke out against the Civil War, which Lincoln supported. Although Bryant is anti-slavery, the abolitionists were tearing the United States apart, so he is anti-abolitionist. However, he is also anti-abolitionist persecution because freedom of speech is very important to him. His father is a physician, and Bryant started out as a lawyer but decided to pursue his literary desires. His mother is a Puritan, but Bryant is a Calvinist. Although Calvinist, Bryant has opposing view regarding death. Instead of believing in condemnation to hell, he believes in “[mixing] forever with the elements” and with no trace of humanity: achieving perfection(Bryant, Thanatopsis” 27). His strong individualism causes isolation at times and while he is “lone wandering, but not lost,” trying to solidify his opinions: While flow the heavens with the last steps of day, / Far, through rosy depths, dost thou pursue / Thy solitary way?”(Bryant, “To a Waterfowl” 2-4). Bryant’s sturdy, individualistic beliefs determines why he was separated from other Romantic
When it came to football, Tillman busted his butt everyday in practice to prove himself. During the off season he was always doing something active from climbing giant cliffs to running in marathons. He was also hard working in the classroom. He graduated college in three and a half years with a 3.85 GPA. There were many close games and all Tillman’s team needed was one touchdown to win. He would turn to his coach and say “coach, give me the ball, I’ll get it done.” And almost every time, he did get the job done. If you ever knew or heard the story about Tillman, you would know that he was very hard
Mr. Griffin begin his speech with ethos by convincing us that receiving this award was "unbelievably believable". He convinces us that it’s unbelievable when your shock as great things happen and believable when you work for it. He says “Baylor we are and Baylor we'll always be, but it's up to us to define what that means, and this Heisman Trophy is only the beginning of that process” which is logos. It’s a logos because he is expressing why he deserve to get the trophy or claims. He mentions a saying that him and his teammates say to each other, "The hotter the heat, the harder the steel. No pressure, no diamonds. We compete, we win. We are Baylor" which is pathos. This pathos because in his speech as he said this it showed motivation and
As a child Bryant was forced to work on a farm, he spent most of his time outdoors. Due to being outdoors a majority of his life, Bryant was able to obtain his transcendental view of nature. Also, later on in Bryant’s life he wasn’t able to provide for his family and fill the role as father. Typically the role of a father is to be the bread winner of the family while taking care of the wife and children. Bryant lacked the necessary means in supplying his household’s income. This led Bryan to take a lot of desperate measures in order to provide for his family. A bad investment in a merchant ship landed him in “debtor’s prison”. Debtor’s prison is a prison specifically for people who cannot pay on the debt that they have collected. Death played a major role in Bryant’s life as well. He had to cope with the loss of so many family members due to the outbreak of typhoid fever. His experiences of death allowed him to write with different viewpoints of death. Bryant struggled with the thoughts of an “after life” that were related to God.
Fred Bear was born March fifth, 1902 in Waynesboro Pennsylvania. Growing up, he enjoyed fishing, hunting, and trapping with his father, who is the reason why he became interested in these activities in the first place. He began hunting with his dad at six years old. At the age of fourteen, Fred shot his absolute favorite animal to hunt, deer. While hunting, Fred would usually wear a flannel shirt and his signature hat, which looked like a round, black safari hat with a brown band wrapping around the middle along with a feather along the side, Everything him and his dad trapped was sold for money to feed their family. He was always very resourceful making the most of what he had. Growing up, Fred has always had a strong work ethic. When he
He became the first ever basketball coach, he is known as the father of basketball, even though his record as a coach at the University of Kansas was a mediocre fifty five wins and sixty losses. There are many sports to coach, so choosing the right sport to coach is the first test for any coach. Naturally, one would want to coach a sport that you know the most about. For example, if an athlete decided he wanted to get into coaching he would most likely choose to coach the sport he had once played.