Eddie Robinson (Grambling football coach)
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| Sport(s) | Football, basketball |
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| Biographical details | |
| Born |
February 13, 1919 Jackson, Louisiana |
| Died |
April 3, 2007 (aged 88) |
| Spouse(s) | Doris Robinson (died September 2015) |
| Children | Eddie Robinson, Jr. Lillian Rose Robinson |
| Alma mater |
McKinley Senior High School |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| Football | |
| 1941–1942, 1945–1997 | Grambling |
| Basketball | |
| 1943–1956 | Grambling |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 408–165–15 (football) |
| Bowls | 9–6 |
| Tournaments | 0–3 (NCAA D-I-AA playoffs) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| Football 9 Black college national (1955, 1967, 1972, 1974–1975, 1977, 1980, 1983, 1992) 17 SWAC (1960, 1965–1968, 1971–1974, 1977–1980, 1983, 1985, 1989, 1994) |
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College Football Hall of Fame Inducted in 1997 (profile) |
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April 3, 2007 (aged 88)
Ruston, Louisiana
McKinley Senior High School
Leland College
Eddie Gay Robinson, Sr. (February 13, 1919 – April 3, 2007) was an American football coach. He coached the second most victories in NCAA Division I history and the third most overall. From July 2012 to January 2015, Robinson held the Division I record, as 111 of Joe Paterno's wins had been vacated during that time as a result of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal and subsequent NCAA sanctions. With the restoration of the wins by the NCAA in 2015, Paterno has again been recognized as the Division I record holder.
For 56 years, from 1941 to 1942 and again from 1945 to 1997, he was the head coach at Grambling State University, a historically black university (HBCU) in Grambling in Lincoln Parish in North Louisiana. Robinson is recognized by many college football experts as one of the greatest coaches in history. During a period in college football history when black players were not allowed to play for southern college programs, Robinson built Grambling State into a "small" college football powerhouse. He retired in 1997 with a record of 408 wins, 165 losses, and 15 ties. Robinson coached every single game from the field and was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1997.
Robinson was born in Jackson in East Feliciana Parish in South Louisiana, to the son of a sharecropper and a domestic worker. He graduated in 1937 from McKinley Senior High School in the capital city of Baton Rouge, Louisiana and briefly attended Southern University there. He then played quarterback and earned his bachelor's degree in English at Leland College in Baker, Louisiana, before obtaining his master's degree in 1954 from the University of Iowa in Iowa City—at which he was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.
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