Read more about the article Did the Bear duck Biggie’s offer to play Duffy’s Spartans?

Did the Bear duck Biggie’s offer to play Duffy’s Spartans?

PHOTO (Michigan State Athletics): Biggie Munn (L) and Duffy Daugherty retired George Webster's No. 90 only a year after the 6-foot-5, 235-pound linebacker/safety finished his College Football Hall of Fame career. Did Bear Bryant wonder who was going to block Webster and fellow College Football Hall of Famer Bubba Smith (6-7, 285)? Alabama All-American offensive tackle Cecil Dowdy was 6-1, 202. Visit my website home page, TomShanahan.Report By TOM SHANAHAN Michigan State’s Phi Kappa Sigma brothers finished dinner…

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Read more about the article Daly’s stories on James Bond, Duffy, Biggie, breakfast with The Bear and quotes Bryant’s apologists don’t want you to hear

Daly’s stories on James Bond, Duffy, Biggie, breakfast with The Bear and quotes Bryant’s apologists don’t want you to hear

By TOM SHANAHAN Team equipment managers hear the juiciest gossip. As the locker room empties, they quietly go about their business, unintentionally a chameleon blended into the walls. Others forget they’re within earshot. Marty Daly was one of those guys at Michigan State. Daly was the Spartans’ assistant equipment manager from the 1965 to 1972, a time that overlapped College Football Hall of Fame coach Duffy Daugherty’s 1965 and 1966 national championship teams. He later was promoted to…

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