With multiple responsibilities, his teams won seven water polo championships during his time at Northwestern, and he served briefly as basketball coach in 1919.

[1] He competed in the Central AAU Swimming Championship in the plunge for distance in late September 1906 while representing the Evanston YMCA.

Robinson furthered the development of the Australian crawl in collegiate swimming whose adoption in American competition began in the early 1900's.

[3] On February 28, 1924, having already won several championships, Robinson was honored by Northwestern in recognition of his 25-years of service of coaching swimming and water polo by a Silver Anniversary testimonial banquet hosted by the University.

Present to honor Robinson were Northwestern President Walter Dill Scott, Mayor Charles H. Barlett, and other civic leaders.

Robinson began to stage water basketball opening games before Big Ten swimming events at Northwestern, exhibiting the new sport to other teams.

[6] Among Robinson's most outstanding swimmers were 1924 Olympians Dick Howell, Ralph Breyer, and gold medalists Robert Skelton, and Sybil Bauer.

He died on August 12, 1958, at the Lake County Tuberculosis sanatorium, in Waukegan, Illinois and was survived by his wife, a daughter and a son.