David Sumner interview-60th anniversary of the Bear Bryant-Wally Butts scandal

<p>Tonight’s guest is author David Sumner. David lives in Indiana and was a former professor of Journalism at Ball State University for 25 years.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Exactly 60 years ago on this day in 1963 the now defunct Saturday Evening Post ran an expose accusing University of Alabama football coach Bear Bryant of conspiring with former University of Georgia Bulldogs football coach Wally Butts to fix a 1962 game between the two schools which Georgia lost 35-0.</p> <p> </p> <p>In 2018 David Sumner wrote his first book on college football titled “Fumbled Call” which deals with mysterious Bear Bryant-Wally Butts football scandal which took place during the early 1960s which led to trials in the Federal Courts that influenced libel laws regarding celebrities.</p>