Eddie Robinson dies at 88

[MaineDem]

RUSTON, La. (AP) -- Eddie Robinson, who sent more than 200 players to the NFL and won 408 games during a 57-year career, has died.

He was 88.

Super Bowl MVP quarterback Doug Williams, one of Robinson's former players, said the former Grambling State University coach died about 11:30 p.m. Tuesday. Robinson had been admitted to Lincoln General Hospital on Tuesday afternoon.

"For the Grambling family this is a very emotional time," Williams said Wednesday. "But I'm thinking about Eddie Robinson the man, not in today-time, but in the day and what he meant to me and to so many people."

Robinson's was a career that spanned 11 presidents, several wars and the civil-rights movement.

Edited to include link: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/football/ncaa/04/04/robinson.obit.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

[SteveM]

1. Eddie Robinson and Grambling, always in the news when I was a kid.