Former Memphis football coach Chuck Stobart dies at 90
‘We lost a great man but heaven got a great one’
Jeremy Williams (19) and his Memphis State University teammates celebrate their 24-10 upset victory over Southern California at the Coliseum in Los Angeles, Sept. 2, 1991. Chuck Stobart was the Tigers coach when Memphis pulled off this upset in 1991. (AP File Photo/Craig Fujii)
“He had a lot of belief in a lot of young men,” Greg Stobart said of his dad Chuck, who coached at Memphis from 1989-1994. “Tried to make them better people and give them structure like all good coaches and mentors do.”
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Frank Bonner II covers the Memphis Tigers. He is a top-10 APSE winner who covered Oklahoma State for the Tulsa World before joining The Daily Memphian in 2021. Bonner is a native of Indiana, where he started his career covering high school sports.
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