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Grambling's football pioneer, Eddie Robinson, gets 300 wins...
Before the cheerleaders could say '"Louisiana Negro Normal and Industrial Institute, hold that line!" the other team had usually scored. So in the 1940s, 300 victories ago, they renamed the place Grambling, and Eddie Robinson was already the football coach. He was the only coach then. The night watchman, Jesse Applewhite, helped...
...when former 15th-round draft pick Willie Davis was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Green Bay wing, he chose Eddie Robinson to introduce him at the ceremonies. Davis had a sense that his Packer coach, the late Vince Lombardi, was present too in Robinson. "They were both tough disciplinarians," he says, "with soft human sides. They made football a lesson of life. Maybe some of the problems in the game now-you know, drugs-are rooted in the fact that you don't hear coaches described that way much any more...
...Robinson never actually set out to win 300 games. "I don't think of it even now," he said before the 43-21 victory over Florida A. & M. that made 300. "That just was never part of it: counting the games." Still, his eyes shine proudly at the mention of Pop Warner, Amos Alonzo Stagg and Bear Bryant, the only other college football coaches who have done it. "I knew Warner as a formation in high school around Baton Rouge," he lightly laughs. " 'Warner Left,' 'Warner Right.' I had the privilege of meeting Mr. Stagg...
...Goss, Alison Harrington, Emily Harrison, Adrienne Headley, Ron Herman, Michael Hirschorn, Raquel Jacobson, Per Jebsen, Kerry Kelgar, Scott Kogan, Mary Kwak, Deborah I esinsohn, Brian Melindez, Alan Morre, Steven Nusshaum, An Posner, Marvin Putnam, William Rehling, Samuel Rickless, Mitch Rosner, Chris Roy, Charles Rudmick, Jill Ruttenberg, Jell Russan, Laura Robinson, Michael Samols, Katherine Saunders, Henry Shapiro, Andrea Silbert, Daman Silvers, Steven Smart, Vivian Sogor, Jake Stevens, James Umlas, Elisheva, Tracy Velasquez, Ann Von Germeten, Doug Winthlop, Stan Yukoevitch, Bill Zachary and Charles Zender...