Eddie Robinson died at the age of 88
Posted on April 4, 2007
Filed Under Sports News, Football/Soccer
He began coaching at Grambling State in 1941, when it was still the Louisiana Negro Normal and Industrial Institute, and single-handedly brought the school from obscurity to international popularity. At the age of 88, Eddie Robinson, Grambling’s well known coach died in Ruston, La. A sad news for us all. Through out his life he worked tireless to brake the racial barrier in his town and in the world. His great skills produced hundreds of NFL players that are world-known.
He has been coach for almost 60 years at Grambling State University, where he trained and released almost every season players for big teams out the world.
A Super Bowl MVP Quarterbacker, Doug Williams was one of his students that made it big and was there when Robinson died.Williams said it was before midnight on Tuesday when coach Eddie Robinson past away.
“For the Grambling family this is a very emotional time,but I’m thinking about Eddie Robinson the man, not in today-time, but in the day and what he meant to me and to so many people.”
His career passed through 11 presidents, the civil rights movement and a few wars. In 57 years of work Robinson compiled a 408-165-15 record. He probably was the best coach in all of collage football.
“The real record I have set for over 50 years is the fact that I have had one job and one wife,” Robinson said.
He was suffering from Alzheimer’s disease since 1997 when he was diagnosed by doctors in Chicago and was forced to retire.
He started coaching at Grambling State in 1941. Eddie Robinson was coach at the Louisiana Negro Normal and Industrial Institute, and brought the school that wasn’t so known at that time to international popularity.
