The One Historians Are Going to Remember (1970)
Pat Dye (1939-2020), Bear Bryant, Integration, and The Test of Leadership
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I. Number 80
The legend goes like this: One day in 1969, a young assistant coach at the University of Alabama, Pat Dye, was watching film of a high-school quarterback from a town called Ozark. The head coach of the Crimson Tide, Paul “Bear” Bryant…
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