Frederick Arthur Robison (often misspelled Robinson;
February 21, 1876 – August 11, 1954) was an
American football
American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wi ...
player and coach. He was the head football coach at Western University of Pennsylvania—now known as the
University of Pittsburgh
The University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) is a public state-related research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The university is composed of 17 undergraduate and graduate schools and colleges at its urban Pittsburgh campus, home to the univers ...
–from 1898 to 1899 seasons, compiling a record of 8–3–2. He had earlier played
halfback for
Penn State (1894),
Pittsburgh Athletic Club
The Pittsburgh Athletic Club (PAC) was one of the earliest professional ice hockey teams. It was based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from around 1895 until 1904 and again from 1907 to 1909. The team was a member of the Western Pennsylvania Hockey Le ...
(1896) and
Greensburg Athletic Association
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(1897).
Head coaching record
References
Pittsburgh Panthers football coaches
Greensburg Athletic Association players
Penn State Nittany Lions baseball players
Penn State Nittany Lions football players
Pittsburgh Athletic Club (football) players
1876 births
1954 deaths
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