Bobby Wilder, Date of Birth
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American football player and coach
Date of Birth: 30-Jul-1964
Profession: American football player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About Bobby Wilder
- Robert S.
- Wilder (born August 1, 1964) is an American football coach who most recently served as the head coach of the Old Dominion Monarchs football team.
- He was only the second coach all-time in the program's history and the first since football's rebirth at the school in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) in 2009.
- Old Dominion played football for eleven seasons when the university was a two-year institution known as the Norfolk Division of the College of William and Mary.
- Between 1930 and 1940, the team compiled a record of 42-36-4.
- The program was then discontinued due to a rule banning freshman players and a US$10,000 debt.Hired in 2007, Wilder spent the first two years recruiting and starting up the program.
- In 2009, in his first competitive season as head coach, the Monarchs finished 9–2.
- That was the best winning record ever for a first-year program in college football's modern era.
- The Monarchs were outscored by a total of only eight points in their two losses.
- Wilder's inaugural team finished the year ranked in the top ten in five FCS statistical categories, including second in sacks allowed, third in scoring offense, turnover margin and net punting.
- The 2009 Monarchs were ninth in rushing offense.ODU was fifth in FCS attendance in 2009, selling out all of their home games in the 19,782-seat Foreman Field.In his first three years, Wilder led Old Dominion to a 26–7 record.
- In 2011, in the Monarchs first season in the Colonial Athletic Association, they earned a berth in the 2011 FCS playoffs, hosting crosstown rival Norfolk State.
- Also in 2011, after playing 27 games in its "modern era", ODU received its first Top 25 ranking on October 3, coming in at No.
- 21 in The Sports Network poll.
- The Monarchs were ranked among the Top Ten after competing in 33 games.
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