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Robert Cleckler Bowden (born November 8, 1929 in Birmingham, Alabama), better known as Bobby Bowden, is the current head college football coach of the Florida State University Seminoles. Since taking the position in 1976, Bowden has led FSU to an Associated Press and Coaches Poll National Title in 1993 and a BCS National Championship National Title in 1999, as well as twelve Atlantic Coast Conference championships since FSU joined the conference in 1991. Bowden (with 381 career wins) is currently two wins behind Joe Paterno (383 career wins) as the all-time winningest Division I-FBS coach by total victories. [1] [2] Bowden, along with Joe Paterno, Chris Ault, and John Gagliardi, is one of four active coaches who have also been inducted in to the College Football Hall of Fame.
[edit] Youth and family lifeBorn in Birmingham, Alabama, Bowden spent a portion of his childhood in bed, sick. When he was 13 years old, Bowden was diagnosed with rheumatic fever. After a six month hospital stay, Bowden was confined to his bed at home for just over a year with nothing more than his imagination to pass the time. It was listening to World War II reports on the radio that began Bowden's interest in the war, an interest he still has to this day. It was also around this time that his love for football increased, as he would listen to University of Alabama football on Saturday mornings. Bowden was an outstanding football player at Woodlawn High School in Birmingham, and went on to the University of Alabama as a quarterback, fulfilling a lifelong dream to play for the Crimson Tide before returning to Birmingham and marrying his high school sweetheart Ann Estock on April 1, 1949 (today, the couple have six children and 21 grandchildren). Bobby transferred to Howard College (now Samford University), where he was a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. Bowden graduated from Howard in 1953. [edit] Early coaching careerBowden served as an assistant football coach and head track and field coach at Howard College from 1954–1955. He left his alma mater to become Athletic Director as well as head football, baseball, and basketball coach at South Georgia College from 1956 to 1958. Bowden then returned to Howard as head coach, where he compiled a 31–6 record between 1959 and 1962. In 1962, Bowden went to Florida State University as an assistant coach under Head Coach Bill Peterson. Two other coaching legends who worked under Coach Peterson during this time were Bill Parcells and Joe Gibbs. Bowden left Florida State in 1965 to go to West Virginia University as assistant coach. When the head coach at West Virginia left before the 1970 season, Bowden replaced him. Bowden then compiled a 42–26 record at WVU before returning to FSU as head coach in 1976. [edit] Florida State
At Florida State, Bowden inherited a team that had won just four games over the previous three seasons. In his 31 years as the head coach at Florida State, he has had only two losing seasons, his first and second in 1976 and 1977; and has compiled a 300–84–4 record. He is the only coach in Division I-A football history to have enjoyed 14 straight seasons of 10 or more wins. His Florida State Seminoles finished an unprecedented 14 straight seasons in the top 5 of the Associated Press College Football Poll, and won the College Football National Championship in 1993 and 1999. [edit] The National Bobby Bowden AwardIn 2004, The Fellowship of Christian Athletes presented the first of what is now a yearly award in Bowden's name, The National Bobby Bowden Award, honoring one college football player for his achievements on the field, in the classroom and in the community. The award is presented each year prior to the Bowl Championship Series' national title game. [edit] The Bowden BowlAs both Florida State and Clemson are in the same division of the Atlantic Coast Conference for football, the two teams played each other every year in a game that became known as "The Bowden Bowl". Their first meeting, in 1999, was the first time in Division I-A history that a father and a son met as opposing head coaches in a football game. Bobby held the edge in the series, leading 5–4 with all four losses within the last five seasons. Tommy Bowden's four wins in the series remain the only times the son has ever beaten the father when facing off as head coach in any of America's four major sports.[citation needed] One Bowden Bowl was scheduled between Auburn and Florida State for 1999 when Terry Bowden was the coach at Auburn. However, Terry's midseason resignation in 1998 ended the possibility of a Bowden Bowl. Auburn later used the buyout clause in the contract to get out of this matchup. Another Bowden Bowl was scheduled between Clemson and Florida State in 2008, but due to Tommy Bowden's forced resignation half way through the year, ending all possible Bowden Bowls until further notice. Florida State beat Clemson in 2008 with a score of 41–27 on Bobby Bowden's 79th birthday, earning him his 380th career win. [edit] Family of CoachesBobby is not the only member of his family to have coached Division I-A football. His son Tommy Bowden was the head coach at Clemson University who got fired in 2008; another son, Terry Bowden, was the head coach at Auburn University where he was the 1993 Coach of the Year; and a third son, Jeff Bowden, was the offensive coordinator at Florida State. All three Bowden men who were head coaches have achieved an undefeated season: Terry in 1993 at Auburn; Tommy in 1998 at Tulane; and Bobby in 1999 at Florida State. Bobby's 1999 Florida State team was the only one to win a National Championship, however. [edit] Head coaching records
[edit] AuthorBowden has co-authored several books, including:
Books about Bobby Bowden's early coaching years:
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