Jubie Bragg

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Jubie Bragg
Sport(s) Football
Biographical details
Born (1876-02-17)February 17, 1876
Macon, Georgia
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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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