I've had many a player tell me all through high school and right up until signing day that they were coming to Alabama, then they signed with somebody else.

Marshall put him in contact with Harry Clifton "Curley" Byrd the president and former football coach of the University of Maryland. postage stamp in 1996. However Bryant and Byrd came into conflict.

Paul William "Bear" Bryant (September 11 1913 – January 26 1983) was an American college football player and coach. He was best known as the longtime head coach of the University of Alabama football team. Bryant Museum Paul W.