Eddie Robinson ( American football coach ) - wikipedia Eddie Robinson ( American football coach ) Eddie Robinson Robinson c. 1980 Sport ( s ) Football, basketball Biographical details ( 1919 - 02 - 13 ) February 13, 1919 Jackson, Louisiana April 3, 2007 ( 2007 - 04 - 03 ) ( aged 88 ) Ruston, Louisiana Spouse ( s ) Doris Robinson ( d. 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 -- 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 ) 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, 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. Contents 1 Biography 2 Career 3 Awards and honors 4 Museum 5 In media 6 Head coaching record 6.1 Football 7 See also 8 References 9 External links Biography 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. Career Robinson dreamed of becoming a college football coach himself, but he faced an enormous drawback -- he was black in the days of Jim Crow discrimination. The only college position he could possibly hope to obtain would be at a traditionally all - black school, and these were all well staffed. Having earned his bachelor 's degree at Leland, Robinson returned to Baton Rouge and took a job at a feed mill for 25 cents an hour. Not long after that, he heard that the Louisiana Negro Normal and Industrial Institute -- now Grambling State University -- was searching for a new football coach. He applied for the job and was hired by the school 's president and baseball coach, Ralph Waldo Emerson Jones. In 1941 the 22 - year old Robinson assumed his duties as head football coach at Grambling State. The days of assistant coaches, offensive and defensive coordinators, and specialty coaches were long in the future, so Robinson did everything : he taught offense and defense, mowed the football field, fixed sandwiches for road trips through towns that would not serve blacks in restaurants, taped his players ' sore joints, and even wrote game stories for the newspapers. He had strict standards of personal conduct and educational achievement for his players. In his first year the team went 3 -- 5 -- 1, but the following season -- during which he recruited new players and dismissed those who did not live up to his expectations -- the Tigers had a perfect 9 -- 0 season, going unbeaten, untied, and unscored upon. More than 200 of his players went on to play in the American Football League, CFL, and NFL. Robinson coached three American Football League players who would later be inducted to the Pro Football Hall of Fame : the Kansas City Chiefs ' Buck Buchanan ; the Oakland Raiders ' Willie Brown ; and the Houston Oilers ' Charlie Joiner. Robinson also coached James Harris, who with the AFL 's Buffalo Bills became the first black quarterback in modern Pro Football history to start at that position in a season opener. He also coached Packers defensive end and Hall of Famer Willie Davis and the Super Bowl XXII MVP, Redskins quarterback Doug Williams, who would ultimately succeed Robinson as Grambling 's head coach in 1998. During his coaching career, Robinson compiled 45 winning seasons, including winning or sharing 17 Southwestern Athletic Conference championships and nine black college football national championships. Enormous publicity attended Robinson 's record - breaking win with Grambling State in 1985. Some observers feared that the coach would become the target of white hatred, much as Henry Aaron had when he broke Babe Ruth 's home run record. Instead Robinson reported that he did not receive a single hate letter, even from the legion of southern fans who worshiped Bear Bryant. When asked if his record was somehow tarnished by the fact that his team played most of its games against Division I - AA caliber competition, Robinson told Sports Illustrated : `` I grew up in the South. I was told where to attend elementary school, where to attend junior high school, where to attend high school. When I became a coach, I was told who I could recruit, who I could play, where I could play and when I could play. I did what I could within the system. '' He added that his philosophy had always been `` whatever league you 're in, whatever level, win there. '' Eddie Robinson held several jobs other than football coach, including teaching at Grambling High School, and coaching the girls basketball team during World War II. His girls team lost the state championship by 1 point. He also coached boys basketball, baseball, directed the band, and was in charge of the cheerleaders -- with a budget of $46. Robinson recorded just one losing season between 1960 and 1990 ; however, after three consecutive losing seasons in the mid-1990s, pressure mounted for the now 78 - year old coach to resign. Fellow college coach Joe Paterno is quoted in the Grambling State press guide as saying, `` Nobody has ever done or ever will do what Eddie Robinson has done for the game... Our profession will never, ever be able to repay Eddie Robinson for what he has done for the country and the profession of football. '' In 1997 news escaped that Grambling was planning to dismiss him in mid-season. Public outcry -- including condemnation from Louisiana elected officials like then - Gov. Mike Foster -- led Grambling to retain Robinson 's services through the remainder of the season. Robinson developed Alzheimer 's disease after his retirement. He died on April 3, 2007, at Lincoln General Hospital in Ruston, Louisiana, after having been admitted earlier in the day. Robinson and his wife, Doris, who died at the age of ninety - six in September 2015, had two children ; Eddie, Jr. and Lillian Rose Robinson. Awards and honors Grambling named its football facility, built in 1983, Eddie Robinson Stadium. A street on GSU 's campus is also named for him. In 1985 South 13th Street in Baton Rouge, Louisiana was renamed for him. The Los Angeles Football Classic Foundation 's black college football national championship trophy was named for Robinson in 1988. Beginning in 1994, a separate Eddie Robinson Trophy was awarded in Atlanta to the top HBCU player of the year. The Eddie Robinson Classic ( held from 1997 -- 2002 ) was named for him, as was the Eddie G. Robinson Classic ( begun in 2015 ). In 1997 the Football Writers Association of America 's Eddie Robinson Award was renamed for him. Robinson was awarded the General Robert R. Neyland trophy by the Knoxville Quarterback club in 1999. The American Urban Radio Networks named its HBCU coach of the year trophy for Robinson. Robinson received the Amos Alonzo Stagg Award from the American Football Coaches Association ( AFCA ) in 1982 and the Amos Alonzo Stagg Coaching Award from the United States Sports Academy in 1985. Robinson was the 1992 winner of the Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year Award, which was established to honor the NCAA Division I football coach whose team excels on the field, in the classroom, and in the community. The award is named for Bobby Dodd, longtime head football coach of the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets ; it was established in 1976 to honor the values that Dodd exemplified. Super Bowl XXXII, played at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego, was dedicated to Robinson. He was accompanied onto the field by Williams and Joe Gibbs to perform the ceremonial coin toss. Eddie G. Robinson Museum on the campus of Grambling State University Museum In 2010, the Eddie G. Robinson Museum opened on GSU 's campus. The museum chronicles and celebrates the major accomplishments of the G - Men football program and former head coach Eddie Robinson. The museum is 18,000 square feet and costed approximately $3.3 million to complete. In media In the 1981 TV movie Grambling 's White Tiger set in late 1960s, about the true story of Jim Gregory, the first white quarterback at Grambling, Robinson is played by Harry Belafonte. Head coaching record Football Today 's Grambling State University was Grambling College from 1946 through 1973. It was Louisiana Negro Normal and Industrial Institute ( commonly Louisiana Normal ) from 1928 through 1945. Year Team Overall Conference Standing Bowl / playoffs NCAA TSN Louisiana Normal Tigers ( Independent ) ( 1941 -- 1945 ) 1941 Louisiana Normal 1 -- 5 -- 1 1942 Louisiana Normal 9 -- 0 1943 No team -- World War II 1944 No team -- World War II 1945 Louisiana Normal 10 -- 2 W Flower Grambling Tigers ( Independent ) ( 1946 -- 1951 ) 1946 Grambling 6 -- 6 1947 Grambling 10 -- 2 L Vulcan 1948 Grambling 8 -- 2 1949 Grambling 7 -- 3 -- 2 1950 Grambling 6 -- 4 -- 1 1951 Grambling 3 -- 5 -- 1 Grambling Tigers ( Midwestern Athletic Conference ) ( 1952 -- 1957 ) 1952 Grambling 7 -- 3 -- 1 1953 Grambling 8 -- 2 1955 Grambling 4 -- 3 -- 2 1955 Grambling 10 -- 0 W Orange Blossom Classic 1956 Grambling 8 -- 1 1957 Grambling 4 -- 4 Grambling Tigers ( Southwestern Athletic Conference ) ( 1958 -- 1973 ) 1958 Grambling 6 -- 3 1 -- 3 6th 1959 Grambling 4 -- 6 2 -- 5 T -- 5th 1960 Grambling 9 -- 1 6 -- 1 T -- 1st 1961 Grambling 8 -- 2 5 -- 2 T -- 2nd 1962 Grambling 6 -- 2 -- 2 3 -- 3 -- 2 3rd 1963 Grambling 5 -- 3 -- 1 3 -- 3 -- 1 T -- 4th 1964 Grambling 9 -- 2 6 -- 1 2nd L Orange Blossom Classic 1965 Grambling 8 -- 3 6 -- 1 1st L Pecan 1966 Grambling 6 -- 2 -- 1 4 -- 2 -- 1 T -- 1st 1967 Grambling 9 -- 1 6 -- 1 1st W Orange Blossom Classic 1968 Grambling 9 -- 2 6 -- 1 1st W Pasadena 1969 Grambling 6 -- 4 5 -- 2 3rd L Orange Blossom Classic 1970 Grambling 9 -- 2 5 -- 1 2nd 1971 Grambling 9 -- 2 5 -- 1 1st 1972 Grambling 11 -- 2 5 -- 1 T -- 1st W Pelican 1973 Grambling 10 -- 3 5 -- 1 T -- 1st W Boardwalk ( Division II first round ) L Grantland Rice ( Division II semifinal ) Grambling State Tigers ( Southwestern Athletic Conference ) ( 1974 -- 1997 ) Grambling State 11 -- 1 5 -- 1 T -- 1st W Pelican Grambling State 10 -- 2 4 -- 2 T -- 1st 1976 Grambling State 8 -- 4 4 -- 2 T -- 2nd 1977 Grambling State 10 -- 1 6 -- 0 1st W Mirage 1978 Grambling State 9 -- 1 -- 1 5 -- 0 -- 1 1st L Orange Blossom Classic 1979 Grambling State 8 -- 3 5 -- 1 T -- 1st 1980 Grambling State 10 -- 2 5 -- 1 T -- 1st L NCAA Division I - AA Semifinal 1981 Grambling State 6 -- 4 -- 1 4 -- 1 -- 1 2nd 1982 Grambling State 8 -- 3 5 -- 1 2nd 10 Grambling State 8 -- 1 -- 2 6 -- 0 -- 1 1st 10 1984 Grambling State 7 -- 4 5 -- 2 3rd 1985 Grambling State 9 -- 3 6 -- 1 1st L NCAA Division I - AA First Round 8 1986 Grambling State 7 -- 4 4 -- 3 T -- 3rd Grambling State 5 -- 6 3 -- 4 T -- 5th Grambling State 8 -- 3 5 -- 2 2nd 18 Grambling State 9 -- 3 7 -- 0 1st L NCAA Division I - AA First Round 19 Grambling State 8 -- 3 3 -- 3 T -- 3rd 1991 Grambling State 5 -- 6 3 -- 4 T -- 6th Grambling State 10 -- 2 6 -- 1 2nd W Heritage Grambling State 7 -- 4 4 -- 3 3rd Grambling State 9 -- 3 6 -- 1 T -- 1st W Heritage 7 1995 Grambling State 5 -- 6 4 -- 3 4th Grambling State 3 -- 8 2 -- 5 T -- 6th Grambling State 3 -- 8 2 -- 6 T -- 7th La. Normal / Grambling / Grambling St. : 408 -- 165 -- 15 Total : 408 -- 165 -- 15 National championship Conference title Conference division title Rankings from final Coaches Poll. Rankings from final AP Poll. See also Biography portal African American portal List of college football coaches with 200 wins List of presidents of the American Football Coaches Association References Jump up ^ Joe Planas ( October 7, 1985 ). `` Robinson moves out front to bask in splendid glory ''. Baton Rouge Morning Advocate ( sec. D, p. 1 ). Jump up ^ EDDIE ROBINSON : 1919 - 2007 - Robinson 's Record. The Advocate. April 5, 2007 Jump up ^ `` Farewell loss ca n't tarnish Robinson 's winning legacy ''. southcoasttoday.com. November 30, 1997. Retrieved February 19, 2017. Jump up ^ Foster, Mary ( August 2, 2004 ). `` Ex-Grambling Coach Endures Alzheimer 's ''. Associated Press. Archived from the original on August 3, 2004. Retrieved November 26, 2015. Jump up ^ Foster, Mary ( April 4, 2007 ). `` Legendary Grambling coach Robinson dies ''. Associated Press. Archived from the original on April 4, 2007. Retrieved November 26, 2015. Jump up ^ http://www.foxsports.com/college-football/story/wife-of-legendary-grambling-coach-eddie-robinson-dies-at-96-091615 Jump up ^ `` Eddie G. Robinson ''. encyclopedia.com. 2007. Retrieved December 11, 2015. ^ Jump up to : `` Accomplishments ''. robinsonmuseum.com. Retrieved December 11, 2015. Jump up ^ `` Central State Marauders, ' Tank ' Younger Feted In L.A. ''. Jet ( p. 49 ). May 22, 1989. Jump up ^ `` Eddie Robinson Trophy to be awarded ''. Deseret News ( sec. D, p. 2 ). September 21, 1994. Jump up ^ `` Introducing the Inaugural Eddie G. Robinson Classic ''. egrobinsonclassic.com. June 23, 2015. Retrieved December 11, 2015. Jump up ^ http://knoxqbclub.com/?page_id=76 Jump up ^ `` Fobbs Named the Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year ''. gsutigers.com. January 22, 2015. Retrieved December 11, 2015. Jump up ^ `` Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year Foundation -- Past Winners ''. Bobby Dodd Foundation. Archived from the original on December 9, 2009. Retrieved December 17, 2012. Jump up ^ Samuel G. Freedman ( February 12, 2010 ). `` Louisiana Museum Confronts Segregation ''. nytimes.com. Retrieved December 11, 2015. Jump up ^ http://www.thenewsstar.com/story/life/discover/2017/06/25/gateway-american-folklore/357734001/ Jump up ^ https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/13/us/13grambling.html Jump up ^ AP ( January 2, 1946 ). `` Louisiana Normal Is Flower Bowl Victor ''. Lubbock Morning Avalanche. Lubbock, Texas. Retrieved February 18, 2017 -- via newspapers.com. Jump up ^ http://www.robinsonmuseum.com/pages/bio.php External links Remembrances of Robinson from The Advocate ( Louisiana ) Eddie Robinson at the College Football Hall of Fame Eddie Robinson at Find a Grave Eddie G. Robinson Museum Links to related articles Grambling State Tigers head football coaches R.W.E. Jones ( 1928 -- 1931 ) No team ( 1932 ) Unknown ( 1933 ) Ozias Johnson ( 1934 ) Emory Hines ( 1935 -- 1940 ) Eddie Robinson ( 1941 -- 1942 ) No team ( 1943 -- 1944 ) Eddie Robinson ( 1946 -- 1997 ) Doug Williams ( 1998 -- 2003 ) Melvin Spears ( 2004 -- 2006 ) Rod Broadway ( 2007 -- 2010 ) Doug Williams ( 2011 -- 2013 ) George Ragsdale # ( 2013 ) Dennis Winston # ( 2013 ) Broderick Fobbs ( 2014 -- ) Pound sign ( # ) denotes interim coach. Grambling State Tigers men 's basketball head coaches W.L. Garner Ozias Johnson ( 1940 -- 1942 ) Eddie Robinson ( 1943 -- 1956 ) Fred Hobdy ( 1956 -- 1986 ) Bob Hopkins ( 1986 -- 1989 ) Aaron James ( 1989 -- 1995 ) Lacey Reynolds ( 1995 -- 1999 ) Larry Wright ( 1999 -- 2008 ) Rick Duckett ( 2008 -- 2009 ) Bobby Washington ( 2009 -- 2012 ) Joseph Price ( 2012 -- 2014 ) Shawn Walker ( 2014 -- 2017 ) Donte Jackson ( 2017 -- ) Amos Alonzo Stagg Award winners 1940 : Herring Jr. 1941 : Cowell 1942 -- 1945 No award given 1946 : Rice 1947 : Alexander 1948 : Dobie, Warner & Zuppke 1949 : Harlow 1950 No award given 1951 : McLaughry 1952 : McMillin 1953 : Little 1954 : Bible 1955 : Tomlin 1956 No award given 1957 : Neyland 1958 : Bierman 1959 : Wilce 1960 : Harman 1961 : Eliot 1962 : Wieman 1963 : Kerr 1964 : Faurot 1965 : Stuhldreher 1966 : Moore 1967 : Neely 1968 : Martin 1969 : Engle 1970 : Waldorf 1971 : Murray 1972 : Curtice 1973 : Jordan 1974 : Gaither 1975 : Zornow 1976 No award given 1977 : Schwartzwalder 1978 : Hamilton 1979 : Crisler 1980 No award given 1981 : Russell 1982 : Robinson 1983 : Bryant 1984 : Wilkinson 1985 : Daugherty 1986 : Hayes 1987 : Scovell 1988 : McCracken 1989 : Nelson 1990 : Casanova 1991 : Blackman 1992 : McClendon 1993 : Jackson 1994 : Devaney 1995 : Merritt 1996 : Neinas 1997 : Parseghian 1998 : Reade 1999 : Schembechler 2000 : Osborne 2001 : Dooley 2002 : Paterno 2003 : Edwards 2004 : Schipper 2005 : Fry 2006 : Teaff 2007 : Curry 2008 : Walsh 2009 : Gagliardi 2010 : Royal 2011 : Bowden 2012 : DeBerry 2013 : Westering 2014 : Slocum 2015 : Hatfield 2016 : Cooper 2017 : Nehlen Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year Award winners 1976 : Dooley 1977 : Schembechler 1978 : Osborne 1979 : Edwards 1980 : Bowden 1981 : Paterno 1982 : G. MacIntyre 1983 : Hatfield 1984 : Wacker 1985 : DeBerry 1986 : Sheridan 1987 : MacPherson 1988 : Nehlen 1989 : Curry 1990 : Ross 1991 : Welsh 1992 : Robinson 1993 : Alvarez 1994 : Goldsmith 1995 : Barnett 1996 : Sutton 1997 : Price 1998 : Snyder 1999 : Beamer 2000 : O'Leary 2001 : Friedgen 2002 : Tressel 2003 : Stoops 2004 : Johnson 2005 : Paterno 2006 : Grobe 2007 : Carr 2008 : Brown 2009 : Patterson 2010 : Petersen 2011 : Swinney 2012 : Snyder 2013 : Cutcliffe 2014 : Saban 2015 : Ferentz 2016 : M. 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Question: when did the eddie g. robinson museum open
Answer: 2010