Summer tour has brought Broadway, Ellis to Grambling faithful

GRAMBLING — For Grambling legend Wilbert Ellis, the summer has been busy —and more than a little nostalgic. He's spent the bulk of the past few weeks on the road with second-year GSU football coach Rod Broadway, visiting alumni and boosters for the program and a proposed museum in honor of Ellis’ old friend, the late gridiron great Eddie Robinson.

Ellis, a former baseball skipper and athletic administrator at Grambling, used to make similar appearances across the Deep South with Robinson during their coaching tenures. “It’s kind of like the old SWAC tours,” Ellis said. “You go from place to place similar to that — and you tell the Grambling story.”

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