Stanley Lewis "Robbie" Robinson (November 17, 1890 – July 2, 1967) was an American
college football
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player and coach. He served as the head football coach the
University of Vermont
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in 1915, Mississippi A&M (now known as
Mississippi State University
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) from 1917 through the 1919,
Mercer University
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from 1923 to 1925, and
Mississippi College
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from 1920 to 1922 and again from 1928 to 1953, compiling a career college football coaching record of 148–88–16. During his three-season tenure at Mississippi A&M, Robinson compiled an overall record of sixteen wins and five losses (16–5).
He also spent one season (1919) as the Mississippi A&M baseball coach.
Robinson-Hale Stadium
The Mississippi College Choctaws football team represented Mississippi College. The school's teams are known as the Choctaws. Its major rivals are Millsaps College in nearby Jackson and Delta State in Cleveland, Mississippi, in the Delta. After a ...
at Mississippi College is named in Robinson's honor.
Robinson died on July 2, 1967, at his home in
Clinton, Mississippi
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.
Head coaching record
Football
^^Mississippi College did not field teams from 1942 to 1945 due to World War II
Baseball
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1890 births
1967 deaths
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