Coaches Gene Stallings and Pat Dye, 1992
Football coaches
Stallings, Eugene Clifton, 1935
University of Alabama
Gene Stallings greets Auburn coach Pat Dye after Alabama's defeat of Auburn 17-0 in Birmingham's Legion Field on November 26, 1992. The Crimson Tide completed the season 13-0 with a win in the Sugar Bowl over Miami and became National Champion.
Gene Stallings (1935 - ) was a football player and coach who is best known as the head football coach at the University of Alabama. He led the Crimson Tide to an undefeated season and a national championship in 1992. A statue of Stallings stands in the Walk of Champions outside the Bryant-Denny Stadium in honor of winning a national championship.
Eugene (Gene) Clifton Stallings was born on March 2, 1935, in Paris Texas to Eugene E. and Nellie Moye Stallings. He attend Paris High Scholl and was the captain of the football team his senior year. He attended Texas A & M. In his sophomore year Bear Bryant was hired as head coach to improve the football program. In 1958 he followed Bryant to the University of Alabama rising to the position of assistant head coach. Stallings returned to Texas A & M to serve as head coach. He also coached for the Dallas Cowboys and the St. Louis Cardinals.
In January 1990, Stallings was hired as the University of Alabama head football coach after the departure of Bill Curry. He led the team in 1992 to its first national championship since Bryant’s 1979 championship. In 1993 the revelation of a player’s ineligibility led to sanctions by the National Collegiate Athletic Association resulting in the forfeiture of nine games. In 1996 Stallings announced his resignation. In retirement he has remained active as a motivational speaker and member of various boards.
As a result of caring for their son, John Mark (Johnny), who was born with Down syndrome and a heart defect, Stallings and his wife worked to promote awareness of the needs of developmentally disabled Individuals.
Additional information can be found in the Encyclopedia of Alabama: http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-3434
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Tuscaloosa News
November 26, 1992
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University of Alabama Woodland Scene, circa 1905
University of Alabama
Springs
Marr, William M.
This postcard shows people enjoying a day on Marr’s Spring. Named for William M. Marr, Marr's Spring was the water supply for the University for over 75 years. The site of Marr’s Spring was chosen by the Trustees of the University of Alabama to erect the campus buildings.
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Circa 1905
Jason Townsend (Description)
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George Denny in his Office, circa 1915
University of Alabama
College presidents
Denny, George Hutcheson, 1870-1955
Denny is pictured at his desk in Manly Hall circa 1915. Seated to the back is part-time law student, Virgil O. Bernard, his part-time secretary. Bonnie, Denny's collie, is under his desk.
George Hutcheson (Mike) Denny is best known for his 25-year tenure as president of the University of Alabama during its most significant period of growth and its football program successes.
Denny was born on December 8, 1870, in Hanover County, Virginia, the son of Rev. George and Charlotte Wright Denny. He earned a B.A. and M.A. in classics from Hampden-Sydney College in Hampden-Sydney, Virginia, and a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville in 1896. He taught Latin at Hampden-Sydney (where he also served as the head football coach) and at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia prior to serving as president for the next decade.
Denny assumed the presidency of the University of Alabama in 1912 and served until his retirement due to poor health in 1936. When his successor, Richard Foster, died suddenly in 1941, Denny returned briefly to resume the presidency.
In October 1920. The football field, known as University Field, was renamed Denny Field in honor of his support of football. So pleased with Denny’s presidency were students, alumni, and friends of the university that they donated $100,000 in 1928 for the construction of a bell tower, Denny Chimes, in honor of his service. In 1929 the new football stadium was named Denny Stadium (now Bryant-Denny Stadium).
Denny was married to Jane Strickler Denny, with whom he had four children. After his retirement he moved back to Lexington, Virginia, where he died on April 2, 1955 and is buried in the Stonewall Jackson Cemetery.
Denny was inducted into the Tuscaloosa County Civic Hall of Fame posthumously in 2007.
For more information see Encyclopedia of Alabama http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-3595
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Circa 1915
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Bear Bryant at the Liberty Bowl, 1982
Football coaches
University of Alabama
Liberty Bowl (Football game)
Bryant, Paul W., 1913-1983
Paul "Bear" Bryant coached his last football game in the 1982 Liberty Bowl in Memphis, Tennesse where his Alabama team beat Illinois 21-15.
Bryant was born in rural Arkansas in 1913 and helped work the family farm. He played on an Arkansas high school championship team and earned a scholarship to join the Crimson Tide. After positions at Maryland, Kentucky and Texas A&M he became the head coach at Alabama were he stayed for 25 seasons. Bryant retired in 1982 with a career record of 323-85-17.
http://bryant100.com/
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December 29, 1982
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Paul "Bear" Bryant, 1913-1983
Football coaches
University of Alabama
Bryant, Paul W., 1913-1983
In this undated photo, Paul W. "Bear" Bryant rests next to the tower he used to watch his Alabama football team practice.
Bryant was born in rural Arkansas in 1913 and helped work the family farm. He played on an Arkansas high school championship team and earned a scholarship to join the Crimson Tide. After positions at Maryland, Kentucky and Texas A&M he became the head coach at Alabama were he stayed for 25 seasons. Bryant retired in 1982 with a career record of 323-85-17.
http://bryant100.com/
He is considered one of the world's greatest college football coach and remains one of the most successful coaches in history. His ability to connect with and motivate players created winning programs at several schools. Bryant is best known, however, for his tenure at the University of Alabama, where he led the Crimson Tide to six national championships, 24 bowl games, 14 conference titles, and three undefeated seasons.
http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-1420
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The Tuscaloosa News
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The Tuscaloosa News
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Coach "Bear" Bryant and Governor Lurleen Wallace, 1967
Football coaches
Wallace, Lurleen Burns, 1926-1968
Bryant, Paul W., 1913-1983
University of Alabama
Governors
Paul W. "Bear" Bryant, football coach at the University of Alabama, greets Governor Lurleen Wallace outside Denny Stadium (now Bryant-Denny Stadium) to welcome the governor to watch a Crimson Tide football scrimmage.
"Bryant was born in rural Arkansas in 1913 and helped work the family farm. He played on an Arkansas high school championship team and earned a scholarship to join the Crimson Tide. After positions at Maryland, Kentucky and Texas A&M he became the head coach at Alabama were he stayed for 25 seasons. Bryant retired in 1982 with a career record of 323-85-17."
http://bryant100.com/
Lurleen Burns Wallace, was Governor of Alabama from 1967 until her death from cancer in 1968. She was the 46th Governor of the State of Alabama succeeding her husband, George Wallace. She was the only woman ever elected to the office.
Lurleen Burns was born September 19, 1926, in Tuscaloosa County. She was married to George Wallace on May 21, 1943, in a judge's office in the Alston Building in Tuscaloosa when she was sixteen years old. They had four children, 3 daughters - Bobbi Jo, Peggy Sue, and Lee – and one son – George, Jr.
For a comprehensive biography for Lurleen Burns Wallace, go to http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/wallace/peopleevents/pande06.html
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The Tuscaloosa News
April 19, 1967
Betty Slowe (Description)
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Paul "Bear" Bryant at the Sugar Bowl, 1979
Football coaches
University of Alabama
Sugar Bowl (Football game)
Bryant, Paul W., 1913-1983
Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant is carried off on the shoulders of his players after the Alabama Crimson Tide defeated Penn State in the 1979 Sugar Bowl.
Bryant was born in rural Arkansas in 1913 and helped work the family farm. He played on an Arkansas high school championship team and earned a scholarship to join the Crimson Tide. After positions at Maryland, Kentucky and Texas A&M he became the head coach at Alabama were he stayed for 25 seasons. Bryant retired in 1982 with a career record of 323-85-17.
http://bryant100.com/
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The Tuscaloosa News
January 1, 1979
Betty Slowe (Description)
The Tuscaloosa News
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New Orleans (LA)
Paul "Bear" Bryant at the 1971 Iron Bowl
Football coaches
University of Alabama
Bryant, Paul W., 1913-1983
Alabama Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant gets a victory ride on the shoulders of guard John Hannah (73) and linebacker Jeff Blitz (25) after the Crimson Tide defeated Auburn 31-7 in the Iron Bowl at Legion Field, Birmingham in 1971.
Bryant was born in rural Arkansas in 1913 and helped work the family farm. He played on an Arkansas high school championship team and earned a scholarship to join the Crimson Tide. After positions at Maryland, Kentucky and Texas A&M he became the head coach at Alabama were he stayed for 25 seasons. Bryant retired in 1982 with a career record of 323-85-17.
http://bryant100.com/
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The Tuscaloosa News
November 27, 1971
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The Tuscaloosa News
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Birmingham (AL)
Alabama Fans, 1912
University of Alabama
William Perry, driver, and Memon Tierce, behind the driver, are ready for the football game. Other men are not identified.
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1912
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President's Mansion, circa 1840
University of Alabama
Drawing of the University of Alabama President’s Mansion in the 1840s.
When Reverend Basil Manly accepted the post as president in 1838, the Board of Trustees appointed a committee to gather the required funds for a presidential home. As the original design plans for the campus had been taken by the architect when he left the state, the committee members had to look at the already constructed buildings and form a design plan from them. In the end, the mansion was built in the area which had been designated as the future medical school grounds.
The President’s Mansion is one of the few buildings that survived the burning of the campus in 1865 because of Mrs. Louisa Frances Garland, wife of the 3rd University president Landon C. Garland. Upon learning that the campus was burning, she left Bryce Hospital where everyone had taken shelter and raced back to the mansion to defend her property. Her strength of will and presence of mind stopped the Federal Army from destroying the mansion and the young union soldiers even worked to put out the fire they had already started at the place.
The mansion, which has undergone a number of restorations, assumed its current appearance in 1908. The president's quarters are on the third floor, while the bottom two floors are used for gatherings and receptions.
http://tour.ua.edu/tourstops/presmansion.html
Personal Collection of Jason Townsend
circa 1840
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