Bobby Bowden began his lifelong love for football at an early age. As a young child he would often climb onto the roof of his house and sit for hours watching the local high school team run practice drills. Bobby played football while a student at Woodlawn High School in Birmingham, Alabama and again in college, first at the University of Alabama and then at Howard College (now Samford University).
Bobby’s coaching career began in 1954 as an assistant coach at Howard College. After working as an assistant coach at Howard for two years he was offered a head coaching position at South Georgia Junior College. Bobby stayed with South Georgia for two years pulling double duty as head coach of the football team and athletic director. Bobby coached at South Georgia for four years (1955-1958) winning three junior college state titles in that time. Bobby earned the first of many awards that he’d receive in his career while coaching at South Georgia, in 1955 and again in 1957 he was named the state’s Junior College Coach of the Year.
After his two year stint at South Georgia came to an end, Bobby returned to his alma mater, Howard College in 1959 to accept a head coaching position. Bobby’s career at Howard was a successful one, going 31-6 in four seasons, his first season alone brought nine wins and six of those wins his team shutout the opponent. Since the inception of Bowden’s coaching career he longed for something bigger, more of a challenge, he wanted to coach a larger program.
Bobby Bowden had many successful years as an assistant coach, he later went on to be a receivers coach at Florida State and then onto an offensive coordinators position at West Virginia before becoming their head coach in 1970. Bobby would keep coaching the ...
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