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THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Thursday, August 3,
Stallings Enters
Third A&M Year
GENE STALLINGS
Head Football Coach
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Although he has only two seasons of head cc
behind him, Texas A&M’s Gene Stallings already has es(
lished himself as one of the top football coaches in
nation.
Summoned back to his alma mater to rejuvenate t!
Aggies football program, Stallings’ first two editions di
played continual improvement and the upcoming ’67 clt
has its sight set on doing the same.
His first A&M club in 1965 won only three game
but that included one of the nation’s great upsets, a 14-i
win over Georgia Tech in Atlanta. His second club i
1966 posted a 4-5-1 mark and finished fourth in the Souti
west Conference. It still figured in the championsli
race right down to the final weekend of play.
The Aggies' head man knows from experience, bot |
as a player and coach, what is required to produce a winne
He was tri-captain of the undefeated Aggie team of 195 Jg
and he helped build championship teams at Alabama whei
he served seven seasons as an aide on Coach Paul
Bryant’s staff. He was Bryant’s assistant head coat
when he accepted the Aggieland post in December, 1961
Long hours of hard, dedicated work are what Stalling
puts in as he continues to bring the Aggies up the footba
comeback trail.
Stallings, who was 32 last March 2, was born in 19J
at Paris, Texas, where he grew up to become an all-aroun
sports star at Paris High. A natural leader, he captaim
football, basketball and golf teams in high school anj
was tri-captain of the Aggie club in 1956.
He was a three-year letterman end under Coach Bryar .
at A&M and won all-Southwest Conference recognition hi P 1 . 0 , 1
Aggie
from
junior season.
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Following his final varsity game at A&M, he wfe r ^ 1 t>
married to the former Ruth Ann Jack of Paris. They havi
four children. |
He coached the A&M freshmen in the fall of 1957 am
then moved with Bryant to Alabama where he spent thi
next seven seasons.
Stallings grew up wanting to be a coach and he waj
fortunate, indeed, in learning the game under two greai
ones, Raymond Berry at Paris High and Bryant at A&!1
He evidently was an apt pupil and learned his gridirot
lessons well because when he became A&M’s head coach
Alabama’s Bryant said, “He’s the top young college coachf
ing prospect in America.”
Dedicated to Texas A&M, Stallings says, “It is easy for
me to try to sell a boy on coming to A&M . . . for threi
reasons: First, it is a school where you can get an ex
cellent education . . . second, it is a place where you will
learn what loyalty means and . . . third, it is a placf
where a boy can play for a good football team.
Determined to win, Stallings leaves little to chance it
his planning. All facets of his job are throughly organized
so as not to overlook the smallest detail.
Last year Stallings lead the Aggies through the seasoi
with the words, “Make something happend.” This year's
battle cry from Stallings is “The Aggies are back!”
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LAST MINUTE WORDS
Coach Gene Stallings gives the Aggie football team a few
last minute instructions before they take the field for
one of last fall’s games.