Alabama - The Crimson Tide "bear" Bryant

From playing her first college football game in 1892, Alabama Crimson Tide football program has become one of the of the College football more successful. With thirteen national titles and eight Championships consensus of coaches to your credit or access point, Alabama program has constantly remained among the elite of the NCAA football skills. Almost half of the National Championships in the program were obtained during the tenure of an Alabama - "Bear" Paul Bryant, legendary coach who led Alabama teams from 1957 until his retirement from the 1982 season.

Arrival of bear

When Bryant arrived in Alabama from Texas A & M, the program had been suffering for a period of four straight losing seasons. Arrival of bear seemed to spark the tide is necessary to activate the program around, and equipment that year the posted a record of five wins, four losses and a tie. Unique style Bryant as coach and masterly sporting discipline provides the foundation that the program needed to enable players begin to operate as a team and ascend towards its potential. In his fourth campaign with the program, Bryant had the Crimson Tide in national championship contention. In fact, went on to win the national title that year, on the first voyage of Bryant a bowl with its new computer game. It was a feat that team is often repeated during his tenure as coach, since the program became one of the most dominant in the NCAAs.From 1961 onwards and ending with the 1966 season the Crimson Tide was able to accumulate 60 total victories with only 5 losses.During that same period, won three national championships, SEC titles and were invited to six matches of Bowl. in two of those seasons, the team went undefeated. Alabama football was back!

1970S and beyond

The next decade belonged to Bryant marea.Equipos took the SEC Championship eight of those ten years, and won another three national titles as well.That period also saw another first for the Alabama team and happened during a rematch of the tide USC loss in 1970.During the game between the two schools next year, Bryant took the fateful decision to allow the American player John Mitchell to start your computer.Although Alabama won the game for a touchdown, is best known for being the first instance of a black player to start a game of Alabama.

The end of career Bryant came after more than two decades as coach of Alabama and was - in a timely manner, some would say - a victory for its tide 1982.Bryant Liberty Bowl game left the sport with a total of 323 WINS, which was at that time the most ever recorded by a College of 25 entrenador.Sus full seasons with the tide still represent the gold standard for training of college football, and many are coaches who since then have said bear as its source of inspiration. Bryant died in 1983, a mere month after his last game training.

Writer and editor, Freddie Brister, is a former secundaria.Compruebe school coach his Alabama Crimson Tide Watch or your Chicago Cubs Watch