Bear Down marker
The University of Arizona’s “Bear Down” legend is memorialized on a historical marker along Arizona Highway 79 in Florence, just north of the Gila River.
Henry Brean
Reporter
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‘Bear Down’ at 100: Seven things you might not know about the U of A legendFor Star subscribers: A century after his death, John “Button” Salmon’s death-bed message to his University of Arizona football teammates — “Tell the team to bear down.” — remains a defining part of the school’s identity.
