Morgan State University Athletics

Coach Earl Banks was head coach at Morgan State from 1960-73 and completed his career with a .839 win-loss percentage. His 1965-68 teams won 31 straight, the seventh longest winning streak in college football history. He also had three unbeaten regular seasons, five CIAA conference championships and led the Bears to four bowl games. He was the CIAA Coach of the Year - 1962, 1965, and 1966.

As an assistant coach and head coach he sent forty-one of his players to the pros, including Willie Lanier, Leroy Kelly, John Fuqua, Raymond Chester, Roger Brown and Sherman Plunkett. He was also Morgan State’s athletic director through 1987.

Though his primary contribution to society was on the field, Banks was also a philanthropist. ?He was chairman of a fund drive that raised $1 million for Lafayette Square Community Center. In addition, he was a board member for HUB (Help Unite Baltimore), League for Crippled Children, Heart Association, Diabetes Association, Prisoner's Aid, Boy Scouts and Salvation Army.

He died October 27, 1993, at age 69.