I want to make sure I don't interfere with the success of that team next year. I don't see any way I could go to practice like most of 'em do, and not hurt the team. I'd go nuts if I tried doing that.

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.

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