NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — University of Oklahoma President David Boren had a minor stroke before the unveiling of a statue honoring former Oklahoma football coach Bob Stoops on Saturday morning and was taken away on a stretcher.

The school revealed his condition in a news release Saturday evening.

The 76-year-old Boren is a former U.S. senator and has been the university's president since 1994. He had spoken earlier in the ceremony.

Stoops was being honored in front of a large crowd hours before Oklahoma's spring game. Right before the uncovering of the statue, paramedics made their way to Boren an...