Eddie Robinson (born 1919) brought Louisiana's Grambling State University eight black college football championships during his 56 seasons of coaching. At the time of his retirement, the legendary Rob...
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It was a busy morning at Moore's Barber Shop, one of a dozen small businesses scattered along the three-block Main Street in this little town. "Everybody's got to look pretty for tomorrow," Larry P...
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Eddie Robinson inspired young men to do great things, to make the most of their lives. And many of those he touched never played a down for him during a 57-year coaching career at Grambling State."...
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Thousands of mourners passed the open casket of Eddie Robinson on Monday in the Louisiana Capitol, where the famed Grambling State football coach viewed the body of slain political titan Huey Long ...
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Eddie Robinson had big dreams. Too big, it seemed to many, for a poor black youth in the segregated South of the early 20th century. But Robinson wasn't going to let his disadvantages stop him. "I ...
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Dwayne De Rosario, Eddie Robinson and Stuart Holden scored goals and the Houston Dynamo defeated FC Dallas 3-0 on Sunday.Houston (14-7-6) pulled into a tie with Chivas USA for first-place in the We...
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They began arriving soon after the sun came up over the piney woods: football greats, government figures and everyday people _ all of them there to say goodbye to former Grambling football coach Ed...
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To his very last day, Eddie Robinson was always battling something. There was the institutional racism that surrounded him, the piddling football budget he and his coaching staff subsisted on at pr...
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Midfielders Clint Dempsey and Bobby Convey, defender Carlos Bocanegra and goalkeeper Tim Howard were picked Friday for the 20-man roster for the United States' exhibition game against Mexico next w...
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Andy Welsh scored in the 25th minute and Toronto FC held on to defeat the defending MLS champion Houston Dynamo 1-0 Wednesday.The victory was the second straight for the expansion franchise after f...
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A gunman who took four bank employees hostage with an air rifle Monday morning was fatally shot by a SWAT team as he walked out of the bank with his gun drawn, police said. None of the hostages was...
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Eddie Gay Robinson
Grambling remembers Eddie Robinson
