Robert J. LaPointe (November 5, 1945 – January 31, 2012) was an American football coach in Michigan from 1968 through 2010.
[3] 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.
[10][11][12] The team lost his first five games as head coach, two by a single point each, before defeating Kent State 9–7,[13] ending a school-record 27-game losing streak that had lasted more than two years.
[14] Lapointe was then head coach of Harper Woods Notre Dame High School from 1984 to 1990.
In 2002, he was inducted into the Michigan High School Football Association Coaches Hall of Fame.