{"id":874,"date":"2017-01-27T09:15:54","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T16:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=874"},"modified":"2017-08-24T09:15:35","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T16:15:35","slug":"bryant-paul-bear-william-1913-1983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=874","title":{"rendered":"BRYANT, PAUL WILLIAM (BEAR), 1913-1983"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Football coach. Born&#8211;September 11, 1913, \u00a0Kingsland, Ark. Parents&#8211; Wilson Monroe and Ida (Kilgore) Bryant. Married&#8211; Mary Harmon Black, August 3, 1934. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; University of Alabama, B.S., 1939.\u00a0 U. S. Navy, WWII. Served as assistant football coach at the University of Alabama, 1936-1940; assistant football coach at Vanderbilt University 1940-1941; head football coach at the University of Maryland (1945-46), the University of Kentucky (1946-53), and Texas A &amp; M (1954-57); head football coach, University of Alabama, 1958-1983.\u00a0On his retirement in 1983, held the record\u00a0as head coach with the most wins (323) in college football.\u00a0 Won six national championships and 13 conference championships at Alabama. \u00a0Honors; Won numerous coaching and citizenship awards, including twelve Southeastern Coach of the Year Awards and three National Coach of the Year awards. The University of Alabama named an athletic hall and stadium in his honor. Statues of Coach Bryant have been placed at the gate to Legion Field in Birmingham and at the entrance to Bryant-Denny Stadium on the UA campus. Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Ronald Reagan, 1983. Depicted on a U. S. postage stamp, 1996.\u00a0 Died January 26, 1983.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s Who in America, 1982; biography.com.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bear Bryant on Winning Football.\u00a0 Englewood Cliffs, NJ:\u00a0 Prentice-Hall, 1983.<\/p>\n<p>Bear: The Hard Life and Good Times of Alabama&#8217;s Coach Bear Bryant.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Bantam, 1975.<\/p>\n<p>Building a Championship Football Team. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.; Prentice-Hall, 1960.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Papers\u00a0and other memorabilia \u00a0of Coach Bear Bryant are held by the Bear Bryant Museum and the Hoole Special Collections Library, both at the University of Alabama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Football coach. Born&#8211;September 11, 1913, \u00a0Kingsland, Ark. Parents&#8211; Wilson Monroe and Ida (Kilgore) Bryant. Married&#8211; Mary Harmon Black, August 3, 1934. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; University of Alabama, B.S., 1939.\u00a0 U. S. Navy, WWII. Served as assistant football coach at the University of Alabama, 1936-1940; assistant football coach at Vanderbilt University 1940-1941; head football coach [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-c","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6753,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions\/6753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}