ROBERT C. "BOBBY" BOWDEN - AUTOGRAPH - HFSID 142326

ROBERT C. BOWDEN
The highly accomplished college football coach signs his name on this card in blue ink
Signature: "Bobby Bowden" in blue ink. 3½x2. Robert Cleckler "Bobby" Bowden (1929-2021) is a retired American football coach. He played college football for the University of Alabama as a quarterback. After graduating, Bowden served as an assistant football coach and head track and field coach at Howard College (now known as Samford University) from 1954-1955. Bowden later went on to coach at West Virginia State and then Texas Tech before coaching the Florida State Seminoles football team from the 1976 to 2009 seasons. During his 34 years as Florida State's head coach he had only one losing season- his first, in 1976. In 1992 Coach Bowden received the United States Sports Academy's Amos Alonzo Stagg Coaching Award in recognition of his outstanding achievement as a coach. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2006. On March 21, 2010, the Over the Mountain Touchdown Club of Birmingham, Alabama presented the first annual Bobby Bowden National Collegiate Coach of the Year Award, named in honor of Bowden and the contributions that he made during his career. The award recognizes a coach each year with unmatched success on and off of the field in the same attributes that Coach Bowden showed throughout his career: Perseverance, Attitude, Integrity, and Determination. Lightly toned. Faint paperclip indent on center top edge. Small bit of mounting residue on verso. Otherwise, fine condition.