Bob LaPointe

Robert J. LaPointe (November 5, 1945 – January 31, 2012) was an American football coach in Michigan from 1968 through 2010. He is best known for winning Michigan's Class B high school state championship in 1975, and for serving as interim head coach at Eastern Michigan University for part of the 1982 season.

LaPointe began his head coaching career in 1970 leading Southgate Aquinas High School to a 6–1–1 record in his only season at the school. In 1971, he took an assistant coaching job at Divine Child High School under head coach Bill McCartney.

From 1974 through 1977, LaPointe was the head coach at Divine Child High School in Dearborn, Michigan, where his team went undefeated and won a state championship in 1975. His record in 4 seasons was 29–6.

In 1978, newly hired Eastern Michigan University head coach Mike Stock brought LaPointe to the university. The team received widespread attention for their various attempts to end the streak, which included "bringing a coffin to the locker room before the game...as a reminder to kill the streak", and hiring a local hypnotist. The team lost his first five games as head coach, two by a single point each, before defeating Kent State 9–7, ending a school-record 27-game losing streak that had lasted more than two years. For the following season, Jim Harkema was brought in as head coach. His career high school head coach record is 126–129–1.

He died in 2012.

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