Jubie Bragg
Sport(s) | Football |
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Biographical details | |
Born |
Macon, Georgia | February 17, 1876
Died | November 26, 1947 71) | (aged
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1907–1909 | Florida A&M |
1913 | Jackson State |
1920–1923 | Florida A&M |
1925 | Florida A&M |
1930–1931 | Florida A&M |
Jubie Barton Bragg (February 17, 1876 – November 26, 1947) was an American football coach. He served the first head football coach at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, Florida. Bragg coached the team off and on from 1907 through 1931 and has also served as head coach of Alabama's Talladega College, leading that school to shared black college football national championships in 1920 and 1921. Bragg compiled a record of 4–18–1 as Florida A&M's head coach. His son, Eugene J. Bragg, later coached the team himself. Bragg was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity and a charter member of Alpha's Beta Nu chapter on the campus of Florida A&M.
The school's football stadium, Bragg Memorial Stadium, is named in his honor.
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