Williams May Start New Grambling Era

By CHRIS DUFRESNE

Nov. 11, 1997 12 AM PT

Doug Williams will be interviewed Wednesday for the job to succeed legendary Coach Eddie Robinson, who will retire this year after 57 seasons at Grambling State.

Williams, a quarterback who played for Robinson and went on to become a Super Bowl MVP with the Washington Redskins, is currently the head coach at Morehouse College in Atlanta.

“I’d be crazy not to want to be the coach at Grambling,” Williams said from his office Monday.

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Chris Dufresne

Chris Dufresne was the Los Angeles Times’ national college football/basketball columnist from 1995 to 2015. He also covered skiing at the Winter Olympics and wrote extensively on most sports. He is a multiple national award winner and was named 2011 California Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Assn. A Los Angeles native, he started at The Times in 1976 as a truck loader and literally worked his way up (two floors to be exact).

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