Robert A. Latour (May 11, 1925 – November 18, 2010) was an American swimming coach and college athletics administrator. He graduated from

Ohio Wesleyan University Ohio Wesleyan University (OWU) is a private liberal arts college in Delaware, Ohio. It was founded in 1842 by methodist leaders and Central Ohio residents as a nonsectarian institution, and is a member of the Ohio Five – a consortium ...

in 1949 and received a master's degree from

Springfield College Springfield College is a private college in Springfield, Massachusetts. It confers undergraduate and graduate degrees. It is known as the birthplace of basketball because the sport was invented there in 1891 by Canadian-American instructor J ...

in 1955. He organized and served as the first coach of the men's swimming team at

Bucknell University Bucknell University is a private liberal arts college in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1846 as the University at Lewisburg, it now consists of the College of Arts and Sciences, Freeman College of Management, and the College of Engineering. ...

from 1956 to 1968; he led Bucknell's swimming team to six Middle Atlantic Conference championship and the 1964 NCAA College Division championship, Bucknell's only NCAA team title in any sport. He served as Bucknell's director of athletics and physical education from 1968 to 1978. During his tenure as athletic director, Gerhard Fieldhouse was built and the school added men's lacrosse, cross country, indoor track and field and water polo programs. Latour also coached Bucknell's freshman football team for 11 seasons and was a member of the NCAA Division II Football Committee from 1973 to 1978, including two years as its chairman from 1976 to 1978.

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