Collie Nicholson, Grambling's star pitchman dead at 85
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09/13/2006 - NEW ORLEANS (AP) -Collie Nicholson, the Grambling sports information director who helped make coach Eddie Robinson's football program internationally famous, died early Wednesday. He was 85. Nicholson died at home in Shreveport after a prolonged illness, said family friend and spokeswoman Jane Davis. ``His wife, son and daughter were with him,'' Davis said. Nicholson brought the art of promotion to Grambling State University - a traditionally black school in north Louisiana - long before most colleges even thought of it. Among Nicholson's innovations was the ``classic'' game, in which Grambling traveled with its marching band to major American cities. To orchestrate one such game at Yankee Stadium in the 1960s, Nicholson had to sell the concept to the Urban League and the Yankees, remembered Doug Porter, an assistant coach at Grambling for nine years. ``They weren't too excited about the idea,'' Porter said. ``But Collie was so confident they had to be. He told them, 'You may not have confidence in your organization, but I have all the confidence in the world in Grambling and its ability to be a success.' `` Though Grambling suffered a rare loss, 7-6 to Morgan State, the game was a sellout and spawned a friendship between Nicholson, Robinson and Yankee's owner George Steinbrenner. Nicholson and Robinson also established the Bayou Classic rivalry game against Southern University, which remains a tradition and a moneymaker for both schools. ``When you talk about Grambling athletics, most people say Coach Eddie,'' said former Grambling and NFL quarterback Doug Williams. ``But we all know, especially those that went to Grambling back in the day, that you should say Eddie and Collie. They were the ones that put it out there for the world to see.'' Nicholson also took Grambling football international, arranging two games in Japan in the late 1970s. ``Here I was a kid from little old Zachary playing in Japan, Hawaii, Washington D.C.,'' Williams said. ``And it was all because of Collie's mighty pen.'' Working for a small, traditionally black school, Nicholson recognized the appeal of Robinson's success and publicized it widely. Nicholson also promoted Paul ``Tank'' Younger after he scored a then-record 60 career college touchdowns, as well as Junious ``Buck'' Buchanan, Ernie ``Big Cat'' Ladd and James ``Shack'' Harris, the first black player to be drafted at quarterback. Nicholson briefly attended Grambling before serving in the Marine Corps in World War II. Nicholson said he ended up working at Grambling shortly after the war because then-president R.W.E. Jones convinced him to take a newly created position of sports information director. It was a job he would retire from more than 30 years later. ``I would like to be remembered as someone who tried to find a way to fit the Grambling program into the general marketplace,'' Nicholson told The (Monroe, La.) News-Star in 2003. ``I've tried my best to do that.'' The University of Louisiana System Board, which oversees Grambling, approved a plan in May to rename the Robinson Stadium press box after Nicholson.Copyright © 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. The information contained in the AP News report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press.
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