Dunbar head coach Robert Hughes (center) celebrates with his team. At right is Dunbar player Lance Jackson. Dunbar defeats Ozen 66-54. Conference AAAA Boy’s Basketball State Championship Final at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin,Texas Saturday March 8, 2003.
Ron Jenkins
Fort Worth Star Telegram
Robert Hughes, who coached two Fort Worth city high schools to state championships in boys basketball, both in the segregated and integrated eras, and who won more games than any other basketball coach in the country, died on Tuesday in Fort Worth. He was 96.
Hughes won five state championships, 35 district titles and was named the 2003 National High School Coach of the Year. His career record was 1,333-264.
Dunbar head coach Robert Hughes (center) celebrates with his team. At right is Dunbar player Lance Jackson. Dunbar defeats Ozen 66-54. Conference AAAA Boy’s Basketball State Championship Final at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin,Texas Saturday March 8, 2003. Ron Jenkins Fort Worth Star Telegram
The Dunbar players celebrate winning the district championship as Dunbar’s coach Robert Hughes breaks the record as the all-time winningest basketball coach playing Polytechnic High School, Tuesday night at TCU’s Daniel Meyer Coliseum. Rodger Mallison Fort Worth Star-Telegram archive/UTA special collection.
Dunbar’s Jeremis Smith dunks over Kendrick Perkins in the first half of their 2003 state championship game. Dunbar defeated Beaumont Ozen 66-54. Ron Jenkins Fort Worth Star Telegram
Jeremis Smith and Lance Jackson, members of the 2003 Dunbar High School basketball team stand over the 1992-93 5A State Championship banner. Jeffery Washington Star-Telegram
Coach Robert Hughes joins his team in a brief prayer before the Dunbar High School basketball team leaves for the state playoff tournament in Austin in 2003. Rodger Mallison Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Former Dunbar head coach Robert Hughes Sr. scouts the game from the stands during the Dunbar vs O.D. Wyatt Boys High School basketball game at Wilkerson-Greines Acivity Center in Fort Worth on January 10, 2009. Fort Worth Star-Telegram/Sharon M. Steinman Sharon M. Steinman STAR-TELEGRAM/SHARON M. STEINMAN
James Cash, center, signed a letter of intent with TCU Basketball Coach Buster Brannon and the I. M. Terrell all-stater became the first to break the color line in Southwest Conference basketball. Cash’s coach, Robert Hughes, is pictured at left.
The four winningest high school basketball coaches in the country in 1995: Bill Kreuger, Clear Lake; Robert Hughes, Dunbar; Ralph Tasker, Hobbs, New Mexico; and Morgan Wooten, DeMatha Hyatssville, Maryland. Jerry W. Hoefer Fort Worth Star-Telegram archives/UTA special collection
Robert Hughes, head basketball coach at Dunbar High School, accepts good-luck wishes from a crowd of students, parents, and teachers from Maudrie Walton Elementary School before the team’s departure to Austin for the state championship tournament. Norm Tindell Star-Telegram archives/UTA special collection
Robert Hughes, Dunbar High School basketball coach, and two of his players, seniors Grady Marshall, left, and Ricky McCain, pose outside of the Daniel-Meyer Coliseum prior to a workout. Daniel-Meyer will host the city championship basketball game between Dunbar and Southwest High Schools. Dale Blackwell Fort Worth Star-Telegram archives/UTA special collection
Dunbar High School basketball players are seen entering on to the court before a game against at the Wilkerson-Greines Activity Center in Fort Worth. Dunbar head coach Robert Hughes is seen at right with assistant coach Leondas Rambo at left. Rodolfo Gonzalez Fort Worth Star-Telegram archives/UTA special collection
Retired Dunbar coach Robert Hughes (the boys all-time winningest coach) presents Granbury girls coach Leta Andrews, the new all time winningest girls basketball coach in the country, with a platter honoring her achievement during a celebration at the halftime of a basketball game at Granbury High School gym Dec. 10, 2005. FortWorth
Basketball Hall of Fame inductee Robert Hughes (L) coached the Dunbar boys’ basketball team from 1974 to 2005. He had one assistant during his entire time at Dunbar, Leondas Rambo (R). Coach Rambo died on Tuesday. Rodger Mallison Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Robert Hughes (center), the winningest boys high school basektball coach in the nation, was honored at the halftime of the Texas Southern versus TCU game in Fort Worth, December 18, 2017. Paul Moseley pmoseley@star-telegram.com
Dunbar’s Lance Jackson has this writing on his taped leg as Dunbar defeated Beaumont Ozen 66-54 in the 2003 Class 4A state championship game. Ron Jenkins Fort Worth Star Telegram
This story was originally published June 12, 2024 at 12:23 PM.
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