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Grant mourns loss of the great Billy Bye; "Nobody is going to miss him as much as the University of Minnesota," he said of his friend.

Publication: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
Publication Date: 15-JUN-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Grant mourns loss of the great Billy Bye; "Nobody is going to miss him as much as the University of Minnesota," he said of his friend.(SPORTS)(SID HARTMAN)

Article Excerpt
Byline: SID HARTMAN; STAFF WRITER

Nobody outside of his family knew Billy Bye better than Bud Grant. The tragic death of Bye, a former great Gophers running back and great booster of the University of Minnesota who drowned when trying to untangle some weeds from the boat he was riding in with friends, came as a shock to everybody. But it struck Grant especially hard. He was close to Bye from the day they both reported as freshmen to the Gophers football squad in 1946.

They were scheduled to do at least one more thing together. Grant and Bye were two of the five captains appointed for the Gophers opening game at the new stadium next year. Now that will be a sad day with Bye being missed.

"I think he's probably the greatest high school athlete that Minnesota has ever had," Grant said. "I think he won 21 or 22 letters at Anoka, in all sports. He was a baseball player, a basketball player. Of course, he played football. He was a track...

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