Tuesday, July 24, 2012

With Penn State’s Loss, Grambling’s Eddie Robinson Regains Coaching Title

With Penn State’s Loss, Grambling’s Eddie Robinson Regains Coaching Title: Reaching milestones in college athletics is usually a time for jubilant celebration. Monday’s major college sports news was an exception.

Grambling University learned Monday its legendary football coach, Eddie G. Robinson, had regained his rank as the winningest coach in college football history.

The ranking, which Robinson lost just last year, came after the NCAA stripped Joe Paterno, another college football legend who had coached for decades at Penn State University, of all his victories from 1998 to 2011.

The harsh move by the NCAA was part of a sweeping penalty against Paterno, now deceased, and the university for failing to report their knowledge of alleged child alleged sex crimes committed by a former Paterno assistant coach.