Bebes and the Bear: Gene Stallings, Coach Bryant, and Their 1968 Cotton Bowl Showdown

by Ron J. Jackson

No one who has seen the iconic photograph can ever forget its emotional pull: a grinning Gene Stallings, hoisted into the air at midfield in the arms of his lifelong mentor, Paul "Bear" Bryant, moments after the final gun sounded for the 1968 Cotton Bowl. Stallings's upstart Aggies delivered an unbelievable upset of Bryant's Crimson Tide, a team that had dominated its SEC rivals under the leadership of a young quarterback who later achieved NFL fame,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1623498279
• ISBN13: 9781623498276
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 9.3"