Mackie Freeze, known today as a sideline icon at Richwood, had already established his credentials during a memorable stint as a student athlete at Grambling.
Freeze was a standout pitcher, helping the Tigers win 120 of 137 baseball games over his final three college seasons. That included Grambling’s first-ever national NAIA championship under the late coach [...]
As unassuming off the field as he was dramatic on it, Sammy White is finally finding recognition for a too-often overlooked football career.
A three-time SWAC champion, twice both All-SWAC first team and NCAA Division II All-America, a three-time NFL All-Pro, then a five-time league champion over an 11-year stint as assistant coach at Grambling State [...]
The Grambling Legends Sports Hall of Fame’s inaugural class was full of familiar names. There were four NFL Hall-of-Famers, an NBA Hall-of-Famer, and the four late “legends” that made Grambling into what it is today — football coach Eddie Robinson, basketball coach Fred Hobdy, school president Ralph W.E. Jones, and sports information Director Collie J. [...]
Fifteen contributors from Grambling State University lore — including Super Bowl XXII MVP Doug Williams — have earned 2010 induction into the Grambling Legends Sports Hall of Fame.
This year’s honorees also include two-time American Football League all-star Garland Boyette, 400-game winning women’s college basketball coach Patricia Bibbs, hall of fame trainer Eugene “Doc” Harvey, 1950s-era [...]
She was best known in these pages as the wife and widow of Fred Hobdy, the state’s winningest men’s basketball coach ever – and the only one to claim a national championship.
But to her school, and to her community, and to her church, so was so very much more.
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 [...]