Former Texas A&M football player and coach Gene Stallings was hospitalized Monday in Dallas after suffering a mild stroke at DFW International Airport, a coaching colleague said.
Stallings, 82, was awaiting a flight to Alabama for speaking engagements, said former Auburn coach Pat Dye, who was also scheduled to speak. Dye said Stallings told an event organizer that he wanted to reschedule, "so he's optimistic about it."
Stallings also coached at Alabama, where he won a national championship in 1992, and for the NFL's St. Louis/Phoenix Cardinals.
Stallings was a wide receiver at A&M from 1954-56.