[3] Robinson was a 1906 law school graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, where played football from 1903 to 1905, and ran track from 1904 to 1906.
[4] He was captain of the 1905 Texas Longhorns football team and earned the nicknames of "Rosy" and "Mogul" as a player.
[5] He was named to the Southwest Conference (SWC)'s half-century team (1900–1950) and inducted into the Texas Longhorn Hall of Honor in 1971.
He 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.
During the Japanese occupation of the Philippines, he and his wife hid in the Mindanao jungles until the Americans liberated the area.