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Eddie Gay Robinson Sr. (February 13, 1919 – April 3, 2007) was an American football coach. 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. During a period in college football history when black players were not ...
Broderick Lee Fobbs (born August 2, 1974) is an American college football coach who is the running backs coach for South Alabama, a position he has held since 2025. [1] He was the head football coach at Grambling State University from 2014 to 2021.
They were known as Grambling Tigers until 1973, when the university changed its name from Grambling College to the current one. The prominence of Grambling football is longstanding. The Tigers, under Hall of Fame coach Eddie Robinson , who guided them to 408 victories in 55 seasons from 1941 to 1942 and 1945 to 1997, were built as a small ...
He was named the head football coach at Grambling State University in 1998, succeeding the legendary Eddie Robinson. He led the Tigers to three consecutive Southwestern Athletic Conference titles from 2000 to 2002, before leaving to rejoin the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as a personnel executive.
The Tigers were a longstanding HBCU power under legendary coach Eddie Robinson, who retired in 1997. The last time Ohio State played an HBCU opponent was 2013 when the Buckeyes beat Florida A&M 76-0.
Many professional football players developed their skills and love of the game while attending GSU, including the first Black NFL quarterback to win a Super Bowl and former Grambling head coach ...
Lemelle, a 2006 GSU graduate, recalled growing up around legends like legendary football Coach Eddie Robinson and legendary baseball Coach Wilbert Ellis, a living patriarch of Grambling who ...
The 1946 Grambling Tigers football team represented Grambling College—now known as Grambling State University as an independent during the 1946 college football season. In their fourth season under head coach Eddie Robinson , the Tigers compiled a 5–6 record.