On This Day In Alabama History: UA Football Coach Gene Stallings Was Born

By Alabama NewsCenter Staff

Gene Stallings is best-known as the head football coach of the University of Alabama who led the team to an undefeated season and national championship in 1992. Stallings was born in Paris, Texas, on March 2, 1935. A star high school athlete, he was recruited to play football at Texas A&M, where he became a protege of Coach Paul W. “Bear” Bryant. Stallings played football under Bryant and followed him to the University of Alabama in 1958. There, he rose to the position of assistant head coach. During Stallings’ time with Bryant at Alabama, the Crimson Tide won national championships in 1961 and 1964. He co-wrote Bryant’s 1960 book, “Building a Championship Football Team,” and later updated and revised it as “Bear Bryant on Winning Football.” Stallings was head coach at Texas A&M and for the National Football League’s St. Louis Cardinals, and was an assistant coach for the Dallas Cowboys for 14 seasons. Stallings returned to Alabama as head football coach in 1990. He led the team to four seasons of 10 or more wins, and the Tide won four conference division titles and an SEC championship. Stallings was inducted into the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame in 1995.

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