Jubie Bragg | |
Birth Date: | 17 February 1876 |
Birth Place: | Macon, Georgia, U.S. |
Death Place: | Tallahassee, Florida, U.S. |
Coach Years1: | 1907–1909 |
Coach Team1: | Florida A&M |
Coach Years2: | 1913 |
Coach Team2: | Jackson |
Coach Years3: | 1920–1925 |
Coach Team3: | Florida A&M |
Coach Years4: | 1920–1922 |
Coach Team4: | Talladega |
Coach Years5: | 1930–1932 |
Coach Team5: | Florida A&M |
Admin Years1: | 1930–1945 |
Admin Team1: | Florida A&M |
Overall Record: | 23–22–5 |
Championships: | 2 black national championship (1920–1921) |
Jubie Barton Bragg (February 17, 1876 – November 26, 1947) was an American football coach and college athletic administrator. He was the first head football coach at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, Florida. Bragg coached the team off and on from 1907 through 1930 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. His son, Eugene J. Bragg, was head football coach at Florida A&M from 1934 to 1935. Bragg was a charter member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity's Beta Nu chapter on the campus of Florida A&M.
Bragg died on November 26, 1947, in Tallahassee.[1] Florida A&M's football stadium, Bragg Memorial Stadium, is named in his honor.