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	Bobby Bowden - MSN Encarta
		Bobby Bowden, born in 1929, American college football coach, whose success at Florida State University (FSU) ranks among the greatest achievements in the history of the sport.
		Bowden ended the 2005 season with the most coaching victories (359) in Division I college football, just ahead of Penn State coach Joe Paterno (354).
		Robert Cleckler Bowden was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and lived his early years in a house across the street from a high school football field.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_701610404/Bobby_Bowden.html (421 words)

	Bobby Bowden - Leading Authorities Speakers Bureau
		Bowden also gives Florida State University a proud moral leader, a family man of the first order, a caring disciplinarian, and a calming voice in the face of the turbulence surrounding college football.
		Bobby Bowden is a man so closely tied with the phenomenal success of his program that he, as much as Renegade and the war chant, is Florida State football.
		Bowden achieved impressive numbers in his previous coaching stops (31-6 at Samford University in Birmingham between 1959 and 1962, and 42-26 at West Virginia from 1970-75), but what he has done at FSU is simply phenomenal.
	www.leadingauthorities.com /3039/Bobby_Bowden.htm (534 words)

	Player Bio: Bobby Bowden :: Football
		Part of the reason for Bowden's success in his long run at FSU is that the elements of the job that seem to turn into chores over the years for most coaches: recruiting, speaking engagements, public functions, and press responsibilities, come easily for Bowden.
		Sure, Bobby Bowden is proud of his two national championships, his place among the all-time greats, and a football program that is the model for the entire country.
		Bowden was an outstanding football player at Woodlawn High School in Birmingham and went on to Alabama as a freshman quarterback, fulfilling a lifelong dream to play for the Crimson Tide.
	seminoles.cstv.com /sports/m-footbl/mtt/bowden_bobby01.html (1857 words)

	Print Bobby Bowden Biography -- AEI Speakers Bureau
		When Bowden first arrived in Tallahassee in 1976, he described his relationship with the school as "a marriage" and was determined to let "no man put it asunder." True to his word, he completed his 18th season at FSU in 1993.
		Bowden achieved some impressive numbers in his previous coaching stops (31-6 at Samford University in Birmingham between 1959 and 1962, and 42-26 at West Virginia from 1970-1975), but what he has done at Florida State is simply phenomenal.
		Bowden was an outstanding football player at Woodlawn High School in Birmingham, Alabama and went on to Alabama as a freshman quarterback, fulfilling a lifelong dream to play for the Crimson Tide.
	www.aeispeakers.com /print.php?SpeakerID=124 (1143 words)

	bobby bowden personal appearances, football, representation, Bobby Bowden
		Bobby Bowden has been called a riverboat gambler for his trick plays and wide open offense.
		Bobby Bowden is the nation's second winningest active head coach and the only coach ever to lead nine consecutive teams to 10 or more wins.
		Bobby Bowden is also the patriarch of the first family of college coaching.
	www.sportsstarsusa.com /football/bowden_bobby.html (633 words)

	Bobby Bowden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Robert Cleckler Bowden (born November 8, 1929 in Birmingham, Alabama), better known as Bobby Bowden, is the head football coach at the Florida State University, where he has been since 1976.
		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.
		His son Tommy Bowden is the head coach at Clemson University; 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, is the offensive coordinator at Florida State.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bobby_Bowden (987 words)

	Bobby Bowden Speaker - Book Motivational Celebrity Speaker Bobby Bowden and Other Corporate Entertainment
		Bowden's interest in the sport of football began while watching his neighborhood high school team practice just on the other side of his backyard fence in Birmingham, Alabama.
		Bowden is the only coach in NCAA history to win 11 consecutive bowl games (1985-95) and the only coach ever with 14 consecutive bowl appearances (1982-95) without a loss (FSU tied Georgia 17-17 in the 1984 Citrus Bowl).
		Bowden's remarkable career numbers are even more impressive considering the fact that he took over an FSU program in 1976 that had won just four games over the previous three seasons.
	www.allamericanspeakers.com /speakerbio/Bobby_Bowden.php (2163 words)

	Papa 'Nole: The Life and Times of Bobby Bowden
		Bowden didn't completely understand what he was watching from the roof, despite the patient explanations of his dad, who was a big fan of the game.
		Bowden said the pain from rheumatic fever was so intense that he sometimes cried himself to sleep at night.
		Bowden was an ace his junior and senior years in 1947 and 1948 at Woodlawn, playing in what was the stiff competition of the Big 5 of Birmingham high schools: Woodlawn, West End, Phillips, Ramsey and Ensley.
	www.theledger.com /static/bowden/day1.htm (3239 words)

	al.com, the Real South: Famous People - Sports Figures
		Bowden then moved on to Florida State University, where he has been head coach of the Seminoles for 22 years and has made them into a perennial national championship contender.
		Bowden has the NCAA record for most bowl victories (16 through the 1997-98 season) and is the only coach in the history of Division I-A football to compile 10 consecutive 10-win seasons.
		Bowden is fifth all-time in coaching victories with 281.
	www.al.com /south/sports2.html (608 words)

	ESPN.com: NCF - Conversation with Bobby Bowden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Bowden: Nobody even suspected he would come back because we were told that he was going to be drafted so high that having another year wouldn't make any difference.
		Bowden: I take the same responsibility as a father would if his son got in trouble and that is the way I try to treat our boys.
		Bowden: You know, the amazing thing about it, Gary, is when I was forty or forty-five, I felt like probably when I got into my sixties I would be ready to retire.
	espn.go.com /ncf/s/bowden.html (1800 words)

	Bobby Bowden - Premiere Speakers Bureau
		Bowden, who became major college football winningest coach during the 2003 season, is the only coach in NCAA history to win 11 consecutive bowl games (1985-1995) and the only coach ever with 14 consecutive bowl appearances (1982-95) without a loss (FSU tied Georgia 17-17 in the 1984 Citrus Bowl).
		Part of that was recognized by the school this past season with the dedication of a statue of Bobby Bowden that sits in front of the Moore Athletic Center and with the official proclamation of the stadium as Bobby Bowden Field at Doak S. Campbell Stadium.
		Bowden achieved impressive numbers in his previous coaching stops, including a 31-6 record at his alma mater Samford University between 1959-1962 and a 42-46 mark at West Virginia from 1970-75.
	premierespeakers.com /629/index.cfm (1755 words)

	Bobby Bowden Florida State Football Coach
		While Bowden will be in his familiar garnet and gold to start the 2003 season, it will be an unusual start as the Seminoles are coming off their first two "down” years in 15 years of winning 10 or more games.
		Sure, Bobby Bowden is proud of his two national championships, his place among the all-time greats, and a football program that is the model for the entire country, but as Bowden well understands at this stage of his career, there are things more important in life.
		Bowden was an outstanding football player at Woodlawn High School in Birmingham, Ala., and went on to Alabama as a freshman quarterback, fulfilling a lifelong dream to play for the Crimson Tide.
	www.brooksinternational.com /bobby_bowden.htm (1902 words)

	Bobby Bowden - Head Coach, Florida State Football - Nationwide Speakers Bureau
		And when Bowden earned his 150th win as the FSU coach last year, he matched the win of all seven Florida State coached that preceded him.
		A polished speaker, Bowden is consistently in demand.
		Bowden and his wife, the former Ann Estock, have six children and 14 grandchildren.
	www.nationwidespeakers.com /speaker/85 (367 words)

	Sports: Dadgumit, 30 years and counting
		Bowden enjoyed unprecedented success in his first five years, survived 1981 to earn the "King of the Road" nickname and settled down to build FSU into one of the nation's premier programs.
		Things were good, but Bowden hadn't forgotten 1974 when his team struggled and fans called for his removal; some hung him in effigy, others planted a For Sale sign in his front yard.
		Bowden wasn't the first or only candidate FSU had considered as a replacement for Darrell Mudra, who had gone 1-10 and 3-8 in two seasons.
	www.sptimes.com /2005/08/29/Sports/Dadgumit__30_years_an.shtml (1536 words)

	Bobby Bowden - Top 50 Most Important Floridians of the 20th Century (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		It was 1942, and 13-year-old Robert Clecker Bowden, suffering from rheumatic fever, wasconfined to the bedroom of his childhood home in Birmingham, Ala., with nothing more than aradio and his imagination to pass the time.
		Somewhere during that year of confinement wasborn a football coach who would capture the imagination of a new generation of fans and turnwhat was a women's college in 1942 into one of the nation's top college football powers.
		Bowden ranks fifth on the all-time Division 1A coaching list with 281victories, 83 losses and four ties.
	www.theledger.com /static/top50/pages/bowden.html (423 words)

	Bobby Bowden won't let up despite family ties (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		But Bobby Bowden has an offense to get on track if he hopes to win another league crown, even if means rolling up points against the Tigers (5-4, 3-4) in the seventh matchup between father and son.
		But Clemson's Bowden admitted he made a mistake going with Whitehurst and not backup Will Proctor two weeks ago in a 10-9 loss at Georgia Tech that pushed the Tigers' once-hopeful season to the breaking point.
		Bobby Bowden said with tailback Leon Washington still out with an ankle sprain, Lorenzo Booker will make his second straight start.
	www.abcactionnews.com /stories/2005/11/051111bowden.shtml (637 words)

	Tommy Bowden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He is the son of Bobby Bowden, head coach at Florida State University.
		Bowden previously was the head coach at Tulane, and an assistant at the University of Alabama, Auburn University, Duke University, the University of Kentucky, East Carolina University, and with his father at Florida State.
		Bowden's Clemson teams have been to a bowl game every year he has been coaching there, except in 2004, when a brawl with rival South Carolina kept the Tigers from going to a bowl.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tommy_Bowden (269 words)

	Bobby Bowden Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		Bobby Bowden is one of the most celebrated football coaches in college football today.
		Bobby Bowden is spending what should be his retirement years gathering victories and collecting more fodder for stories that must be told between staff meetings, film study, cross-country recruiting trips, and even the tackling of hundreds of footballs and posters that daily await the signature of NCAA Division I-A's all-time winningest coach.
		Florida State University coach Bobby Bowden, one of the winningest coaches in football history, tells in his own words how he maintains a spiritual outlook despite the intense pressures of major college sports.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Bobby_Bowden (358 words)

	The Columbus Online Community - Columbus Telegram (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		LINCOLN - Before you dismiss 76-year-old Bobby Bowden as a coaching relic, as someone unable to relate to pop culture, consider he has six children and 21 grandchildren.
		Don't kid yourself, Bowden still runs the show at Florida State, though perhaps to a lesser extent than he did in, say, 1986, when the Alabama head coaching job - a position Bowden coveted - came open.
		Bobby, who once played quarterback for the Tide, thought the job was his.
	www.columbustelegram.com /articles/2006/06/27/sports/sports6bowden.txt (747 words)

	Bobby Bowden's grandson killed - Sports Central Message Boards
		TALLAHASSEE - Bowden Madden, 15, one of Florida State football coach Bobby Bowden's 21 grandchildren, was killed instantly Monday afternoon in an auto accident attributed to Hurricane Frances.
		John Madden, 45, was an offensive lineman under Bowden at FSU from 1978 to 1981.
		Bobby Bowden was not available for comment following the news and did not attend an indoor team practice Monday.
	www.sports-central.org /community/boards/showthread.php?t=10343 (723 words)

	FOX Sports - COLLEGE FOOTBALL - Bobby Bowden defends son, team's progress (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Florida State coach Bobby Bowden said Monday that team morale is high despite a disappointing season and that he doesn't regret making his youngest son, Jeff Bowden, the team's offensive coordinator.
		Bowden called a meeting Monday of his unity council as well to take the pulse of morale among a half-dozen key players, including quarterback Drew Weatherford, after the Seminoles' 24-19 loss Saturday to Boston College.
		Jeff Bowden, meanwhile, said his father and brothers Terry and Tommy, who is Clemson's coach, have all been criticized during their careers.
	msn.foxsports.com /cfb/story/6091236 (527 words)

	Bobby Bowden and Charlie Ward Inducted into College Football Hall of Fame :: The 2006 Class includes 13 All-America ...
		Bobby Bowden and Charlie Ward Inducted into College Football Hall of Fame :: The 2006 Class includes 13 All-America players and two coaches.
		Bowden will be joined by Penn State's Joe Paterno as the two coaches to be added to the College Football Hall of Fame.
		I am grateful to have the opportunity to share this with a lot of people - my family, my mom and dad who raised me, who I feel have done a good job with all of their kids in raising them to be men and women of honor.
	seminoles.cstv.com /sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/051606aaa.html (1295 words)

	Amazon.com: The Bowden Way: 50 Years of Leadership Wisdom: Books: Bobby Bowden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Florida State's Bobby Bowden is one of the most successful college football coaches of all time.
		Bowden's success as a leader has been predicated on hard work, honesty, and consistency with his coaches and players.
		Bowden's chapters on staff morale and staff meetings are pure gold to football coaches.
	www.amazon.com /Bowden-Way-Years-Leadership-Wisdom/dp/1563526840 (1335 words)

	Sports:: Bobby Bowden Visits Norfolk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Bowden was the featured speaker at the 15th Annual Fellowship of Christian Athletes Golf Tournament at the Norfolk Country Club.
		Bowden, who's entering his 31st season at Florida State, spoke to a sold-out crowd of over 2-hundred people about his own commitment to coach his team by following FCA's values.
		Bowden, who's 76, ended his visit to Norfolk by signing autographs and got in a few holes of golf.
	www.ktiv.com /Sports/index.php?ID=2083 (196 words)

	SportingNews.com - College Football - Critics want Bobby Bowden to fire son
		Bobby Bowden, the winningest coach in major college football, has called his son's critics "cowards," adding fans "better be glad I'd like to keep this job." Bowden, stuck on 358 wins, has two years remaining on his $2 million annual contract.
		He is reluctant to intercede because of his long-standing fondness for Bobby Bowden, who was his position coach 40 years ago.
		Bowden also replaced veteran offensive line coach Jimmy Heggins and quarterback Chris Rix, a four-year starter blamed for many of the problems, graduated.
	www.sportingnews.com /yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=39599 (813 words)

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