Doug Porter, a longtime football coach at multiple HBCUs, has died at 94. who was the oldest living member of the College Football Hall of Fame, has died. He was 94.
Porter, who was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame, died Wednesday, according to online reports.
Porter was the head coach at Mississippi Valley State, Howard and Fort Valley State. He was an assistant coach under Eddie Robinson at Grambling, returned to the school in 1997 as an advisor and helped establish the Eddie G. Robinson Museum in Grambling.
Porter coached at Fort Valley State from 1979 to 1985 and again from 1987 to 1996, going 112-66-3 between stints.
At Fort Valley, Porter was a seven-time Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference coach of the year. He was chairman of the Division II Football Committee and president of the National Athletic Steering Committee. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2008 and the FVSU Athletics Hall of Fame in 2009.
Prior to coaching, Porter played quarterback at Xavier of Louisiana and served in the U.S. Army. He began his college coaching career at Mississippi Valley State, going 21-19 from 1961-65. He then spent nine seasons at Grambling with Robinson, then was 30-21-2 at Howard from 1974-78.
