I think I'm telling the truth. I sat by Ray Perkins at the Hall of Fame dinner in New York, and at that time he didn't know he was our coach and I didn't either.

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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