Just days after suffering a heart attack, former Texas A&M and Alabama football head coach Gene Stallings will be in College Station for Saturday's game between the Aggies and Crimson Tide.

Texas A&M is honoring and reuniting its 1967 Southwest Conference championship winning team with a special recognition at the game at Kyle Field in College Station.

First coat of paint is on, as Kyle Field honors the great Gene Stallings and his ‘67 SWC Champions--who are reuniting this weekend #12thman pic.twitter.com/EHVvC2RJI4 — Texas A&M Football (@AggieFootball) October 3, 2017

Stallings led the Aggies to the championship in the third year of his eight-year stint in College Station. He finished Texas A&M's season that year by beating Alabama, then under Stallings' former coach Bear Bryant, in the Cotton Bowl.

Stallings later coached at Alabama and led the Crimson Tide to the 1992 national championship. It was the team's first title since Bryant had coached in Tuscaloosa.

The 82-year-old Stallings has had several recent health scares, including a stroke in addition to the heart attack last week.

"Well, I'm going to try to go to the A&M-Alabama game," Stallings said in a Thursday interview with Birmingham sportscaster Rick Karle. "They're honoring my (1967) team that beat Alabama in the Cotton Bowl."

"In a couple of months, I've had two strokes and a heart attack," Stallings said. "But something tells me I've got to keep going on. Anyway, just a little setback. I'm doing OK, to tell you the truth."

Cheryl Wray covers local sports for Alabama Media Group. She can be found on Twitter at @cwray_sports and emailed at cwray@al.com.