Eddie Robinson
April 3

Robinson won nine national black college titles and 408 games at Grambling State University, a small predominantly black school in Louisiana. But he will also be remembered for cutting through racial boundaries in what was once the segregated South and for, as he once wrote, challenging "racism by proving a black man could be a good football coach."

Archive 3/15/07 Robinson, 88, forged gridiron tradition, players' character