Gallery: Gene Stallings at Lamar kickoff banquet

Published 12:04 am Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Former Texas A&M, Arizona Cardinals and Alabama head coach Gene Stallings delivers the keynote address to attendees at the Lamar football kickoff banquet Sunday night at the Montagne Center. Stallings, 81, was one of future Alabama coach Bear Bryant’s “Junction Boys” who survived a brutal 1954 training camp and later led Alabama to the 1992 national championship. (I.C. Murrell/The News)

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About I.C. Murrell

I.C. Murrell was promoted to editor of The News, effective Oct. 14, 2019. He previously served as sports editor since August 2015 and has won or shared eight first-place awards from state newspaper associations and corporations. He was born in Memphis, Tennessee, grew up mostly in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, and graduated from the University of Arkansas at Monticello.

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