1961 AP Photo Bear Bryant accepts his 1st Alabama Football Championship Trophy

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This is a very rare 1962 Associated Press black and white photo of coach Bear Bryant accepting his first Alabama National Championship Football trophy as coach of the Crimson Tide in 1961 against Arkansas in the Sugar Bowl. It measures 8 1/2" by 7".
The newspaper clipping at the bottom reads "No 1 Paul Bear Bryant, Alabama football coach accepts the Associated Press trophy emblematic of the No 1 college football rating in the country. Ted Smits, AP sports editor, makes the presentation to Bryant, whose Crimson Tide, defeated Arkansas 10 to 3 in the Sugar Bowl."
The 1961 national championship was the first of the six that Bear Bryant would win as head coach of the Crimson Tide.
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Alabama opened the season with a win over
Georgia
on the road in week one, and then defeated
Tulane
in their home game at Ladd Stadium in week two. After they won their second road game of the season at
Vanderbilt
, Alabama returned to Tuscaloosa where they defeated
NC State
in the first Denny Stadium game of the season. The next week, Alabama defeated
Tennessee
for the first time since the 1954 season in the first Legion Field game of the year.
The Crimson Tide then defeated
Houston
in their final road game of the season and then returned home and defeated
Mississippi State
on
homecoming
in Tuscaloosa. The next week Alabama scored their most points in a game since the
1951 season
when they defeated
Richmond
66–0. They then closed the regular season with wins over
Georgia Tech
and
Auburn
in the
Iron Bowl
and captured the national championship as awarded by the major wire services. The Crimson Tide then closed the season with a victory over Arkansas in the Sugar Bowl.
Please look at all 8 pictures which gives all the details of this original AP photo. There can't be many of these around.
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