Robert "Tex" William Richards Jr. (August 9, 1889 – November 7, 1918) was an American college football player on the University of Pittsburgh Panthers team from 1907 to 1910.

He was the captain and fullback of the undefeated and unscored-upon 1910 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, coached by Joseph H. Thompson, and considered by many to be that season's national champion.

Robert Sr., an American of Welsh descent, was a traveling bookseller in the Pacific Rim in the 1880s, when he met a Melbourne school teacher, Hannah Sarah Harrex.

His mother, Hannah, was Head of Household for Andrew Mellon, future United States Secretary of the Treasury, and his family.

Guy, Richard R., "Football Season Closes with Pitt Victory", The Gazette Times, November 25, 1910.