Grambling Gives Robinson Another Year

Eddie Robinson will get one more year as football coach at Grambling, a chance to add to his 405 victories and to erase the sting of consecutive losing seasons.

On Friday, university President Raymond Hicks, ended a week of rumors that Robinson, 77, college football’s winningest coach, was being forced out.

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Tom O’Brien, Virginia’s offensive coordinator, was hired as coach at scandal-plagued Boston College.

O’Brien replaces Dan Henning, who resigned last month after the Eagles ended a 5-7 season that was marred by a betting scandal. Thirteen Boston College players were suspended for the last two games of the season following a gambling probe.

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Rod Dowhower resigned under pressure as Vanderbilt’s coach in the wake of the school’s 14th consecutive losing season. The Commodores were 2-9 in each of Dowhower’s two seasons. . . . Glen Mason, who turned around the moribund program at Kansas, will try to duplicate that feat at Minnesota, according to a report by the Midwest Sports Channel. Minnesota officials would not comment, but told the Associated Press late Friday that a new coach would be introduced this morning.