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Not everything involving the legendary football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant will be immortalized in Alabama.

The original copies of the first memorandum of agreement between Texas A&M and Bryant and the contract signed by Bryant to be the athletic director and coach Texas A&M beginning in 1954 were recently discovered by former A&M employee Robert Smith and put on display at the Board of Regents Annex on Tuesday afternoon in a ceremony attended by A&M football coach Kevin Sumlin, chairman of the board of regents Phil Adams and Texas A&M University Interim President Mark A. Hussey.

The original blue-back papers, now neatly displayed in a frame with maroon matting, will be a part of the Hall of Champions at Kyle Field when it opens at the start of the 2015 season.

"He has statues all over Alabama, so he went through things like this [honor] there, but I truly believe he had a love for Texas A&M, and I think his wife also did and I know his son, Paul Jr., who is now doing very, very well in the state of Alabama, does," said John David Crow, who won the Heisman Trophy in 1957, Bryant's final season at A&M. "I don't want to say he would have expected it, but he probably would not be surprised."