In Erk Russell’s final year in 1989, the Eagles recorded a perfect 15-0 record, including a defeat of Stephen F. Austin 37-34 for a third national championship in only five seasons.

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 ...

Erk Russell’s rocking chair from the Rockwood Inn now sits in the office of former Georgia Southern athletic director Jared Benko. Benko received the chair from Loran Smith, who said that people ...

Erk Russell was loved by fans at both Georgia Southern and the University of Georgia. Russell won three national titles in eight seasons at Georgia Southern and a national title at Georgia, where ...

Erk Russell, 80, who led the University of Georgia's "Junkyard Dog" defense under football coach Vince Dooley and then built a small-college powerhouse of his own at Georgia Southern, died Friday ...

Back when Erk Russell was first hired as the GSU head coach he made this statement, "This could turn into something on down the road that is really big, that's the way I see it." Clearly, the man had ...

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 ...

Erk Russell did not attend the Eagles' 2004 homecoming and didn't talk much about Georgia Southern after Rusty's firing - until VanGorder was hired. One last speech.

Russell says he hopes to celebrate a win in August the same way Erk celebrated so many Eagle victories. "That'd be a very sweet victory cigar, and very special," he smiles. The 7th Erk Russell Classic ...

As it turns out, Russell coached just eight seasons after leaving Georgia to start Georgia Southern’s football program from scratch. But he won 78.3 percent of the 106 games he coached (83-22-1 ...

Sporting his fan-favorite motivational 'One More Time' T-shirt, the Stan Mullins statue of coach Erk Russell is nearing completion in Athens. Eventually it will be moved to Georgia Southern.