Program for Grambling State University Commemorative Football Game: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A Grambling State University Special Commemorative Football Game Souvenir Program celebrating head coach Eddie Robinson. At center of the front cover is the Grambling State University seal surrounded by 12 photographic images of Eddie Robinson, arranged in a circle. Below the circle of images, against a golden yellow background, text in black and red reads: ["Portraits of a Living Coaching Legend" / Special Commemorative Football Game Souvenir Program / Grambling State University / vs. / North Carolina A&T]. Below the text is a pre-printed signature: [Eddie Robinson]. In the bottom right corner printed in red is: [No. 0212]. The interior consists of fourteen pages of information about the team, pictures, letters, thanks to Robinson, and advertisements. The back cover contains and advertisement Johnny's Pizza House.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: November 15, 1997
• Distributed by: Grambling State University, American, founded 1901
• Subject of: Edward Gay Robinson Sr., American, 1919 - 2007
• Subject of: North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, American, founded 1890
• Type: programs
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 11 × 8 1/2 in. (28 × 21.6 cm)
• Place used: Grambling, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Education
• Topic: Football
• Topic: HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities)
• Topic: Sports
• Object number: 2017.4
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Dr. Leonard L. Haynes, III
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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