Robinson was selected in the New South Wales rugby league team between 1925 and 1926, playing a total of 5 games for the Blues.

He played in the Maher Cup for Cootamundra in 1928, gaining representative selection for Southern Division in a match against Great Britain.

Together with the St George administrator Snowy Justice, Robinson's former representative playing peer, he was one of the seminal forces behind the establishment of the Club Managers' Association of Australia at its foundation in 1964.

Norm Robinson died 12 days before the opening of the stand by Neville Wran, premier of New South Wales and Tiger supporter, in 1980.

[5] His largely attended funeral was held at St. Thomas's Church, Rozelle, New South Wales on 21 March 1980 and he was cremated at Northern Suburbs Crematorium.