Rare Honor Given To Eddie Robinson
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Pallbearers carried the dark wooden casket of longtime Grambling State football coach Eddie Robinson up the granite steps of Louisiana's Capitol on Monday as more than 50 of his former players looked on.
The ex-players, ranging in age from 30 to 85 and clad in dark suits and white gloves, formed lines on either side as the casket was carried up the steps to the somber strains of "Just a Closer Walk with Thee" played by the Grambling State University band.
It was the beginning of a grand tribute to Robinson, who was a feed mill worker making 25 cents an hour in Baton Rouge when he heard about the vacancy in the coaching position at Grambling, a small black college in the rural, piney hills of northern Louisiana.
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