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Bobby Bowden Wife, Net Worth, Children, Family, Obituary, Cause of Death, Pancreatic Cancer, Grandchildren, Age, Wiki, Funeral

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Bobby Bowden Wife, Net Worth, Children, Family, Obituary, Cause of Death, Pancreatic Cancer, Grandchildren, Age, Wiki, Funeral

Bobby Bowden Biography – Bobby Bowden Wiki

Bobby Bowden (born Robert Cleckler Bowden) was an American college football coach. The Birmingham native won 377 games over his long career as a head coach at Samford, West Virginia, and Florida State. He played on the freshman team at Alabama in 1948 before transferring to Samford (then Howard College), where he played from 1949 to 1952, and earned All-America honors in 1952 as a quarterback.

While serving as head coach at his alma mater from 1959 to 1962, Bowden amassed a record of 31-6, posting the highest winning percentage of any coach in school history. He was hired as the head coach at West Virginia in 1970, and served in that role until 1975. In 1976, Bowden began his legendary run at Florida State. During his time with the Seminoles, Bowden won 304 games, and he led the program to the 1993 and 1999 national titles. Bowden was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2006.

Bowden was named National Coach of the Year six times (1979, 1980, 1991, 1992, 1996 and 1999), and a national award for citizenship bears his name. FSU competed as an independent over his first 16 years with the Seminoles before joining the ACC. Bowden led Florida State to the ACC Championship 12 times including eight in a row from 1992-2000.

Bobby Bowden Age

Bowden was born on November 8, 1929, in Birmingham, Alabama. He died on August 8, 2021, in Tallahassee, Florida, aged 91.

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