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Eddie Robinson (Grambling football coach)

Eddie Robinson
Eddie Robinson.jpg
Sport(s) Football, basketball
Biographical details
Born (1919-02-13)February 13, 1919
Jackson, Louisiana
Died

April 3, 2007(2007-04-03) (aged 88)
Ruston, Louisiana

Spouse(s) Doris Robinson (died September 2015)
Children Eddie Robinson, Jr.
Lillian Rose Robinson
Alma mater

McKinley Senior High School
Leland College

University of Iowa
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)
College Football Hall of Fame
Inducted in 1997 (profile)

April 3, 2007(2007-04-03) (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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