Robert Erskine

Robert Horace "Doc" Erskine (July 4, 1904 – February 1, 1978) was an American college football and basketball coach. He served at Loyola University New Orleans as the head football coach from 1933 to 1934 and as the head basketball coach from 1924 to 1925 and 1933 to 1939. Biography "Doc" was born on the Fourth of July in Waukegan, Illinois, to Caroline V. Griffith (1870–1952) & Robert James Erskine (1878–1925). He had an elder brother, David G. Erskine. Erskine served as a lieutenant of infantry in the United States Army Reserve. He never played football at any level, but was described by the Associated Press as a capable analyst of blocking, running, passing, and punting. He served as coach and trainer at the New Mexico Military Institute and Louisiana State University before being named basketball coach at Loyola University at New Orleans in 1924 while still a student. He received a B.S. from Loyola in 1926.