Millard Robinson | |
Birth Date: | c. 1913 |
Death Date: | (aged 85) |
Death Place: | Media, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Player Sport1: | Football |
Player Years2: | c. 1935 |
Player Team2: | West Chester |
Player Sport3: | Baseball |
Player Years4: | 1942 |
Player Team4: | Rome Colonels |
Coach Sport1: | Football |
Coach Years2: | c. 1938 |
Coach Team2: | Upper Yoder HS (PA) (assistant) |
Coach Years3: | 1939–1942 |
Coach Team3: | Prospect Park HS (PA) |
Coach Years4: | 1946–1970 |
Coach Team4: | Swarthmore HS (PA) |
Coach Years5: | 1973 |
Coach Team5: | Swarthmore |
Overall Record: | 0–7 (college) 173–80–8 (high school) |
Millard P. Robinson Sr. (c. 1913 – June 10, 1999) was a minor league baseball player and high school and college American football coach.[1] He served as the head football coach at Swarthmore High School in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania from 1949 to 1972[2] and at Swarthmore College in 1973.
Robinson played college football at West Chester State Teachers College—now known as West Chester University—in West Chester, Pennsylvania under head coach Glenn Killinger. He began his coaching and teaching career at Upper Yoder High School, near Johnstown, Pennsylvania. In 1939, Robinson was appointed he football coach at Prospect Park High School in Prospect Park, Pennsylvania. Following service in the United States Navy during World War II, Robinson return to coaching and teaching in 1946 at Swarthmore High School.
Robinson died at the age of 85 of a brain tumor, on June 10, 1999, at his home in Media, Pennsylvania.[3]