Alabama football fans remember Barry Krauss as a hard-hitting linebacker for three of coach Paul "Bear" Bryant's SEC championship teams and the No. 77 who stonewalled Penn State running back Mike Guman short of the end zone in the Sugar Bowl.
Krauss' fourth-down stop in the famed goal-line stand on Jan. 1, 1979, allowed Alabama to cap its season with a 14-7 victory over previously undefeated Penn State, vaulting the Crimson Tide to the 1978 national championship by virtue of finishing on top of the final Associated Press and Football Writers Association of America polls.
The Baltimore Colts selected Krauss with the sixth pick in the 1979 draft, and he played 11 seasons as NFL linebacker.