Eddie G. Robinson

Eddie Robinson was a sharecropper's son from Jackson, Louisiana, who quarterbacked at Leland College before taking the Grambling job at 22, in 1941. The school had about 175 students, and only some 40 men came out for his first team. After a 3-8 season the program disbanded during World War II, then returned in 1945. In 1949 Paul Younger became the first player from a historically Black college in the NFL. Robinson later tutored the quarterbacks James Harris and Doug Williams, and both helped break the league's barrier against Black quarterbacks.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Eddie G. Robinson Museum — 0.8 mi
  A state museum in a former women's gymnasium at Grambling State University, on the 408-win coach who sent more than 200 players to the pros.

More markers nearby

• Ralph Waldo Emerson Jones, Sr. — steps away
• Louisiana Colored Chautauqua — 1.3 mi
• Lincoln High School — 4.2 mi
• Old Wire Road — 5.3 mi