Gene Stallings was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach on July 16,2011.
18 Facts About Gene Stallings
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Gene Stallings attended Paris High School, where he played end as a sophomore alongside future National Football League star, Raymond Berry.
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In 1958, Gene Stallings joined Bear Bryant's original staff at the University of Alabama as a defensive assistant.
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Gene Stallings was on hand for two of Alabama's national championship seasons, in 1961 and 1964.
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In 1972, Gene Stallings joined the staff of the Dallas Cowboys as Tom Landry's secondary coach.
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Gene Stallings remained with the Cowboys for 14 seasons, and helped them win Super Bowl XII.
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In 1986, Gene Stallings was named the head coach of the St Louis Cardinals.
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Gene Stallings was implicated, along with athletic director Hootie Ingram, in falsifying the eligibility of Alabama cornerback Antonio Langham during that season.
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In 1996, Gene Stallings' team won ten games and earned a berth in the SEC Championship Game, where they lost again to Florida, which eventually won the national title that season.
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Gene Stallings announced on November 23,1996 that he would resign at the end of the season.
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Gene Stallings served on the Committee on Audit and the Committee on Academic and Student Affairs.
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Gene Stallings was chair of the Policy Review Committee and a member of the Special Committee on Educational Access.
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The outpouring of love given to the Gene Stallings family over the past week is a direct reflection of the love one man had for life and everyone he met.
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Gene Stallings received a number of national coaching awards in 1992 and was the SEC Coach of the Year twice, in 1992 and 1994.
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Gene Stallings was awarded the Legends Award from the All Sports Association in Dallas in 2001.
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Gene Stallings has received many humanitarian awards, including the Arthritis Humanitarian Award of Alabama, National Boys Club Alumni of the Year, Dallas Father of the Year, Humanitarian Award of the Lion's Club of Alabama, and Paris Boys Club Wall of Honor.
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Gene Stallings received an honorary doctoral degree from Harding University.
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Gene Stallings's son, John Mark was born with Trisomy 21, Down syndrome, and Gene Stallings has a school for children with disabilities named after him on the University of Alabama Campus, for which he hosts a charity golf tournament every year.