Harry Belafonte stars as Coach Eddie Robinson and LeVar Burton (already famous from Roots and later to be known for Reading Rainbow and Star Trek TNG) appears as Charles 'Tank' Smith, the first friend Jim Gregory makes on the team.
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Pinkie C. Wilkerson, African American member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Lincoln, Bienville, and Union parishes from 1992 until her death in a six-vehicle accident in Bossier City in 2000.
Previously, he was the Director of Football Operations for the Grambling State Tigers located in Grambling, Louisiana and he held that position for three seasons, from 2005 until 2007.
Among Finebaum's written works noted included a column in the Mobile Press-Register on the first two black coaches in the bowl, the admission of NBA star that he was gay, a column on the University of Alabama snubbing of Sylvester Croom to be the first black football head coach in the SEC and a tribute to the late Grambling coach Eddie Robinson.
:For the former Grambling president and baseball coach, see Ralph Waldo Emerson Jones.
For seventeen years, Wilbert Ellis, a Ruston native and 1959 Grambling graduate, was Jones's assistant baseball coach; in 1977.