Biographical details | |
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Born | August 11, 1880 Morristown, Indiana |
Died | April 18, 1949 Lamitan, Philippines |
Alma mater | The University of Texas |
Playing career | |
1903–1905 | Texas |
Position(s) | Halfback, Punter |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1906 | Butler |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 1–0 |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Awards | |
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William Doniphan "Don" Robinson was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana for one season in 1906. [1]
Robinson was a 1906 law school graduate of the University of Texas at Austin where he ran track from 1904 to 1906 and played football from 1903 to 1905. [2] He was captain of the 1905 Varsity football team and earned the nicknames of "Rosy" and "Mogul" as a player. [3]
He was named to the Southwest Conference's half-century team (1900-1950) and inducted into the Texas Longhorn Hall of Honor in 1971. [3]
After coaching at Butler, he went to work as a U.S. Government engineer in Hawaii and the Philippines. He then became a lawyer in Dallas; married Ann Hodges, and in 1914 he returned to the Philippines and, with a partner bought a 100,000-tree, 700-acre coconut plantation on Basilan island. [4] He made a fortune, earning the nickname of the "Coconut King of Zamboanga". During the Japanese occupation of the Philippines, he and his wife hid in the Mindanao jungles until the Americans liberated the area. [5]
On April 18 1949 he was shot and killed by a discharged plantation foreman. [3] He was cremated and his ashes were returned to the United States. [6]
Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
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Butler Christians (Independent)(1906) | |||||||||
1906 | Butler | 1–0 | |||||||
Butler: | 1–0 | ||||||||
Total: | 1–0 |
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