Rattlers Schoolfield among trailblazers in FSU football

TALLAHASSEE, Florida -- Kent Schoolfield returned to Tallahassee for a few days in early 1976.

On a whim, he stopped at Florida State and introduced himself to Seminoles’ new football coach Bobby Bowden.

“Coach didn’t know me from paint on the wall,” Schoolfield said.

Schoolfield, a former standout receiver at Florida A&M in the late 1960s, was coaching at Miami Central following his college and NFL careers.

Wanting to coach at the collegiate level, Schoolfield had mailed 100 resumes to programs nationally.

In Tallahassee to drop off his girlfriend/future wife at FAMU, where she was a student, Schoolfield made a last-minute detour to FSU with his resume.

“Coach Bowden had about 10 million resumes on his desk,” Schoolfield said.

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