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We are the Hunstville Madison County Athletic Hall of Fame.
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POBOX 566
Hunstville, Al 35804
We are the Hunstville Madison County Athletic Hall of Fame.
POBOX 566
Hunstville, Al 35804
Several months before Grissorn High School first opened its doors in 1969, school administrators began an extensive search for a person to start up an ambitious all-around athletic program. They settled on Larrie Robinson, an assistant football coach for John Meadows at cross town Butler High School. It was a fortuitous choice. Under Robinson as the football coach, Grissom became one of the best teams in Alabama, consistently making it into the state playoffs and once going all the way to the state championship game. Under Robinson as the athletic director, Grissom developed the most successful all-around high school sports program in the state. The Tigers eventually won championships in nearly every sport, including basketball, baseball, soccer, track, volleyball and swimming. I was always a football coach, Robinson said, but I take as much pride in what we do in all those other sports as what we did on the football field. Born on May 31, 1931, in Coffeeville, Mississippi, Robinson was a junior college Little All-American in 1949. After a four year career in the U.S. Navy, he received his bachelors degree at Florence State (now North Alabama) and then joined Meadows staff at Scottsboro High Schoo.l Robinson was Meadows No. 1 assistant at Butler High School in Huntsville from 1966 until Grissom opened as the citys fourth high school three years later. Robinson credits his father, Rev. W. L. Robinson, for instilling a life-long credo: If your mind can conceive it and your heart can believe it, then your body can achieve it.
