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Summary: Advance Praise for NEVER BEFORE, NEVER AGAIN
Review: Franklin Roosevelt was America's President when Eddie Robinson coached his first game. 57 years later, Robinson left Grambling as the winningest coach in the history of college football. Initially a coach for a segregated society, he has helped football transcend race in the America he loves and treasures. Yet institutionalized racial barriers kept Robinson a secret from white America for more than 25 years until Howard Cosell did an ABC special on Grambling in the late 1960s. Outside of the world of sport, white America still barely knows him. In the African-American community, he is very likely the best-known coach in America. He is surely the most beloved. NEVER BEFORE, NEVER AGAIN chronicles Coach Robinson's life and his time at Grambling University in vivid detail. He overcame all those things that might have predicted that it was not possible for the son of a sharecropper and a domestic worker to become a success. He got a Masters Degree, became the president of the American Football Coaches Association and led thousands of young boys become outstanding men. More than wins, they may be his greatest legacy. But Coach Robinson's memoir is a social as well as sports history. The book is a lens for readers to see the challenges and turmoil of the civil rights movement from the perspective of a sports figure who worked the playing fields of a black campus while caring deeply about the stakes and outcome of the struggle. The book will place the hard news events in the time frame of the trials of Robinson's Grambling teams of that era. Also included in the book will be the thoughts of other coaches and national leaders on Coach Robinson. Among those to be heard will be college and NFL coaches, Reverend Jesse Jackson, the governor of Louisiana and President Clinton. NEVER BEFORE, NEVER AGAIN stands as a lasting testimony to the work of a true American hero.
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Summary: Great Book
Review: Eddie Robinson is a Pioneer for all of Sports.it's Amazing at all The Things He saw&Heard and yet He stayed Focused&Became one of The Greatest Coaches at any Level of Play.it's Beautiful How Doug Williams Came Back Too Coach Grambling State.MR.RObinson has Inspired alot OF Brothers.even thought The NFL Has a Long way Too Go With The Black QuarterBack Among Many Other Issues Because Of MR.RObinson A Doug WIlliams GOt A Chance the same Goes For STEVE AIR'MCNAIR.MR.ROBINSON Broke Down alot of Ground.A Real Stand Up MAN&WINNER.
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Summary: Great Book
Review: Eddie Robinson is a Pioneer for all of Sports.it's Amazing at all The Things He saw&Heard and yet He stayed Focused&Became one of The Greatest Coaches at any Level of Play.it's Beautiful How Doug Williams Came Back Too Coach Grambling State.MR.RObinson has Inspired alot OF Brothers.even thought The NFL Has a Long way Too Go With The Black QuarterBack Among Many Other Issues Because Of MR.RObinson A Doug WIlliams GOt A Chance the same Goes For STEVE AIR'MCNAIR.MR.ROBINSON Broke Down alot of Ground.A Real Stand Up MAN&WINNER.
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Summary: Outstanding Autobiography!!
Review: Eddie Robinson is truly one of the greatest pioneers in the history of athletics. The way he transformed a football program at a little known (if not unknown at the time) black college in the piney woods of north Louisiana, into a program of both national and international notoriety, is a true testament to his greatness. It is amazing to see what this man has overcome and how he has perservered throughout his 56-year coaching stint. With 408 victories under his belt, he is the all-time winningest coach in college football history at any level. He taught his players how to be champions both on and off the field. As a Grambling State University alumnus, and former Grambling Sports Broadcaster, I was fortunate to witness, first hand, what a class act Coach Robinson is. He transcends the word "committment". This autobiography takes you on a journey of overcoming obstacles on the road to success. I highly recommend this book to everyone, not just athletes, who want to understand what it means to perservere!
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Summary: Outstanding Autobiography!!
Review: Eddie Robinson is truly one of the greatest pioneers in the history of athletics. The way he transformed a football program at a little known (if not unknown at the time) black college in the piney woods of north Louisiana, into a program of both national and international notoriety, is a true testament to his greatness. It is amazing to see what this man has overcome and how he has perservered throughout his 56-year coaching stint. With 408 victories under his belt, he is the all-time winningest coach in college football history at any level. He taught his players how to be champions both on and off the field. As a Grambling State University alumnus, and former Grambling Sports Broadcaster, I was fortunate to witness, first hand, what a class act Coach Robinson is. He transcends the word "committment". This autobiography takes you on a journey of overcoming obstacles on the road to success. I highly recommend this book to everyone, not just athletes, who want to understand what it means to perservere!
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Summary: wonderful autobiography
Review: I'm a big fan of football, so of course i wanted to read, this book about Grambling's great coach. i'm a big fan of grambling except of course when they play Jackson state, or Alcorn. After reading the book, i found Eddie Robinson, to be a wonderful person who cared so much for his team, and his coaches. I felt bad for robinson when i read that a divison 1 school never even contacted him about a job, but what I liked best of all about this book, was he and his wife's Doris love for one another.
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Summary: wonderful autobiography
Review: I'm a big fan of football, so of course i wanted to read, this book about Grambling's great coach. i'm a big fan of grambling except of course when they play Jackson state, or Alcorn. After reading the book, i found Eddie Robinson, to be a wonderful person who cared so much for his team, and his coaches. I felt bad for robinson when i read that a divison 1 school never even contacted him about a job, but what I liked best of all about this book, was he and his wife's Doris love for one another.
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