The Grambling family gathered Saturday at the Monroe Civic Center to induct the Grambling Legends Sports Hall of Fame’s second class, and to again celebrate the lives of the four biggest legends that made the school’s proud athletics history possible — Eddie Robinson, Ralph W.E. Jones, Fred Hobdy and Collie J. Nicholson.
“It tells you what [...]
Joseph B. Johnson had a distinguished career as a university administrator. He served as executive assistant to the president at the University of Colorado in the early stages of his career, was Grambling’s president from 1977-91, and wrapped up his career as the president at Talladega College.
But ask him about his career, and he first [...]
Adolph Byrd’s voice was far from the most popular at Grambling College when he returned to the school in 1946 after World War II to complete his education.
But it gained more and more influence, respect and recognition over the years en route to becoming one of the first 40 members of the Grambling Legends Sports [...]
Doug Williams is no stranger to praise. He already is a member of the College Football Hall of Fame, the Washington Redskins Ring of Fame, the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame and the Chaneyville High School Hall of Fame. Tonight, he and 14 others will be inducted into the Grambling Legends Hall of Fame during [...]
JERRY BARR: Part of a 1958-59 basketball squad that won 28 games in a row before falling to Lenoir Rhyne in the NAIA finals at Kansas City, Barr netted 1,656 career points. He earned All-Midwest Conference honors during Grambling’s final season before joining the Southwestern Athletic Conference, then was NAIA All-America in 1958. Inducted into [...]
Mary Currie, who averaged 20.7 points and 8.3 rebounds over her record-smashing career, helped turn the Grambling women’s basketball program into a SWAC power in the 1980s.
That’s earned her 2010 induction into the Grambling Legends Sports Hall of Fame, with ceremonies set for 6 p.m. July 17 at the Monroe Civic Center.
Roosevelt Taylor was part of a heralded 1960 Grambling squad that earned the program its first-ever Southwestern Athletic Conference championship.
Still, few might have guessed that the New Orleans native would be among that team’s four future All-Pros.
Eddie Robinson Jr. couldn’t hold back tears Tuesday afternoon when reminiscing about the relationship between his family and New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, who died at age 80 Tuesday morning of a heart attack.
“It’s a very personal loss,” said Robinson, son of legendary former Grambling State University football coach Eddie Robinson.
“It’s like we lost [...]
Fred Hobdy had simple words of encouragement when Patricia Cage-Bibbs talked about leaving: “If you can make it at Grambling,” he told her, “you can make it anywhere.”
Hobdy, the legendary former GSU men’s basketball coach and athletic administrator, was right, of course.
Cage-Bibbs, after putting the Grambling women’s basketball program on the map, has since tacked [...]
For Grambling’s ageless Eddie Robinson, Melvin Lee was a constant.
Over nearly five decades, Lee either played for Robinson or coached beside him. Yet he remains a shadowy figure in his old boss’ march to a still-standing Division I record of 408 career football victories.
Lee, unassuming and fiercely steadfast as an offensive assistant, was most comfortable [...]