Robert Hughes
Dunbar High School
Impact Statement
“It was a great, great 47 years for me. If I had the money, I would have paid to be the coach.”
-Robert Hughes
Biography
Hughes, 76, retired this season as the nation’s all-time winningest coach with 1,333 victories and a winning percentage of .840. His 47-year coaching career saw him win five state titles overall – in 1993 and 2003 at Dunbar High and in 1963, 1965 and 1967 at Fort Worth Terrell High. He was inducted into the NFHS National High School Hall of Fame in 2003 and also has been enshrined in the Southwestern Athletic Conference Hall of Fame and the Texas Sports Hall of Fame.
Hughes began his career at I.M. Terrell High School, an all-black high school in Fort Worth, Texas in 1958. He coached there until the school was closed in 1973. He then took the job at Dunbar High School where he finished his career in 2005.
He is the winningest coach in America, a record that still stands.
In 2017 Hughes was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame Museum in Springfield, Massachusetts.
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