- Winningest coach in college football history.
- Personally accounted for putting more than 200 African American players into the NFL.
A legend within his own right, Coach Eddie G. Robinson paved through black history as an exceptional head football coach decades at a time. With no questions asked, he set the pace for coaches, football players and athletes in all sports.
The renowned Grambling State Tiger head football coach, Robinson decided to wind down his half a century career and close a chapter on perhaps one sport history’s most remarkable, yet improbable eras…a successful completion of his reign for nearly six decades at the helm of Grambling State’s football team.
Looking back on Coach Robinson’s career can be compared to that of looking through a college football time capsule. He first started to dream about coaching sometime around the 4th grade. He focused in on that ambition and was soon introduced to a football playbook in the 1930s. He later coached college football during the 1940s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and the 90s, a career spanning 56 years. During the course of his many decades of distinguished service, Coach Robinson not only sent hundreds of his former Tigers to the professional leagues, but he also saw countless numbers of his other Tigers succeed in many other endeavors, including one who later became the president of Grambling.Somehow through it all, Eddie Robinson was able to maintain the competitive edge that sometimes typifies the difference between winning and losing. His prime was much longer than most other coaching careers, and the Coach was able to remain productive well into his 70s. In fact he was 75 years old when, in 1994, he led his Tigers to a co-conference championship and was named the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) coach of the year. By the time Eddie Robinson called it a career, he had amassed an NCAA record-shattering 408 career coaching wins.
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