Robert Victor "Bull" "Cyclone" Sullivan (December 10, 1918 – September 8, 1970) was an American

college football College football is gridiron football that is played by teams of amateur Student athlete, student-athletes at universities and colleges. It was through collegiate competition that gridiron football American football in the United States, firs ...

coach. He was the head coach at

East Mississippi Community College East Mississippi Community College (EMCC), formerly East Mississippi Junior College, is a public community college in Scooba, Mississippi. EMCC serves and is supported by Clay, Kemper, Lauderdale, Lowndes, Noxubee and Oktibbeha counties in ...

for 16 seasons, from 1950 to 1952 and again from 1956 to 1969. He was inducted into the

Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame The Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum is located in Jackson, Mississippi. The hall of fame was established in 1961 and is currently located in a museum that displays the achievements of Mississippi athletes. The museum opened on July 4, ...

, and profiled in the 1984 ''

Sports Illustrated ''Sports Illustrated'' (''SI'') is an American sports magazine first published in August 1954. Founded by Stuart Scheftel, it was the first magazine with a circulation of over one million to win the National Magazine Award for General Excellen ...

'' article "The Toughest Coach There Ever Was". He was also the subject of the book ''Bull Cyclone Sullivan and the Lions of

Scooba, Mississippi Scooba is a town in Kemper County, Mississippi, United States. Founded in 1858, the population was 744 as of the 2020 Census. Etymology Scooba is a Choctaw word meaning "reed brake" (i.e., a farming tool used on reeds), and the early settle ...

''.

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