Erk Russell had rare and extraordinary leadership skills. Across the Southeast and beyond, there are hundreds of football players who would quickly attest to that. He had remarkable instincts with an ...

As another football season is about to get underway, I thought about all the lustful and enduring praise for offensive football, which has always been the talk of the town, and recalled how the late ...

From Savannah and Statesboro to Athens and across the State of Georgia, football fans are coping with the loss of beloved coach Erk Russell. WTOC talked with friends and former players in Statesboro ...

Former Georgia Tech coach Paul Johnson’s gratitude to legendary coach Erk Russell goes deep. First, Russell hired Johnson prior to the 1983 season at Georgia Southern to coach the defensive line when ...

STATESBORO, Ga. - A crowd of 2,000 people at Paulson Stadium paid their final respects to Georgia Southern's legendary coach Erskine 'Erk' Russell. Coach Russell died Friday morning (Sept. 8), he was ...

As another football season is about to get underway, I thought about all the lustful and enduring praise for offensive football, which has always been the talk of the town, and recalled how the late ...

Erk Russell, the architect of the Georgia "Junkyard Dawg" defense of the 1980 National Championship team and head coach of the powerhouse Georgia Southern teams of the 1980s, died Friday after a car ...