GRAMBLING, Louisiana -- An hour before Grambling State University’s homecoming kickoff, hundreds of alumni, students and sports legends gathered around Gate 2 of Robinson Stadium as the stadium built 30 years ago in honor of the late coach was renamed the Eddie G. Robinson Memorial Stadium.
According to Grambling president Frank G. Pogue, Robinson was still alive when the stadium was built, and the university couldn’t honor him by putting his full name on the historic building where he won most of his football games, including No. 408.
“He was not deceased, and there is a state policy about that,” said Pogue. “He has certainly been deceased long enough, that it had to be changed.”
The idea of renaming the stadium has been in conversation for years, even before Pogue’s tenure, the president said, and the idea was brought to Pogue’s attention just days after he was named president of the institution.
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