Eastern Michigan Athletics
Taylor Stubblefield Joins EMU Football Staff
8/6/2008 12:35:33 PM | Football
Former Purdue University All-American to serve as graduate assistant coach
YPSILANTI, Mich. — Former Purdue University football standout Taylor Stubblefield has joined the Eastern Michigan University football staff as a graduate assistant coach, head coach Jeff Genyk announced today.
The 26-year-old Stubblefield is a 2005 graduate of Purdue where he earned All-American and All-Big Ten honors. He was a four-year starter at wide receiver for the Boilermakers’ football team and completed his intercollegiate career as the NCAA’s all-time career leader in pass receptions with 316 and ranks second in Big Ten Conference history with 3,629 yards.
Stubblefield was recently named to the Sun Bowl 75th anniversary team. While playing for Purdue, he started in three Sun Bowls for the Boilermakers and in the 2001 game tied a Sun Bowl record with nine receptions for a record 196 yards and two touchdowns while posting the most all-purpose yards in bowl history with 244.
After graduating from Purdue, Stubblefield went on to play professionally with the St. Louis Rams and the Carolina Panthers in the NFL and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in the Canadian Football League.
He spent the 2007-08 year as a wide receiver coach at Central Washington University.
