Grambling’s Fred Hobdy won more college basketball games than any coach in Louisiana history, and was an integral part in the school’s only two undefeated seasons in football.
By Friday, the long-overdue honor of naming GSU’s new multi-purpose basketball facility after Hobdy will be complete. Grambling this week is officially petitioning its oversight committee, the University [...]
Wilbert Ellis, one of the final remaining links to Grambling’s most celebrated period, always approached his work for the Eddie G. Robinson Museum as a quest.
The long-delayed project would provide an economic boost to Lincoln Parish, and a recruiting tool for Grambling State University. For Ellis, however, this effort was more personal: He wanted to [...]
Many who admired Eddie G. Robinson barely knew him. Even his players often spent no more than a few years around the longtime former Grambling coach.
That didn’t lessen his sweeping impact on their lives.
Former Grambling player and coach Doug Williams makes impassioned plea for naming of new GSU Assembly Center in honor of Fred Hobdy:
TheDerisoReport.com, Feb. 12, 2010, during the Eddie G. Robinson Museum banquet on campus.
They marched, row after row after row of former Grambling football players, to honor Eddie Robinson.
The procession, which curled down Main Street to the front of the new Eddie G. Robinson Museum in Grambling, was met on a frigid Saturday morning by hundreds more — family, friends, former co-workers and those who simply admired from afar [...]
A new photo gallery from TheDerisoReport, previewing the Eddie G. Robinson Museum. A grand-opening ceremony is set for 10 a.m. today at the former Grambling State women’s gymnasium. Click on the images to move the slideshow along:
A lifesize bronze statue of Eddie Robinson towered over a group of busy workers on Friday, as they feverishly worked to complete exhibits, shine old trophies, straighten and sweep inside the emerging Robinson Museum.
Even though there is still work to be done, organizers say, a grand opening event for the long-awaited exhibit space to honor [...]
Many long agreed that a museum dedicated to former Grambling coach Eddie Robinson would be a good thing.
They just couldn’t decide where it should be.
Approved by legislative act a decade ago, the project didn’t find its home at the former GSU women’s basketball gymnasium until 2006.
Nick’s note: A series of stories from TheDerisoReport.com looking back at key moments in the journey to construct a museum in honor of the late Eddie G. Robinson, who achieved a still-standing Division I record for career wins as football coach through six decades at Grambling State. The museum is set for its long-awaited grand [...]
After years of pleas from family, friends and former players, Grambling State University today joined the efforts to name the school’s Assembly Center in former basketball coach and administrator Fred Hobdy’s honor.
You wonder what took them so long. You wonder what could have possibly took them so very long.
Did this simply come down to a [...]