Jack Robinson (American football)

Jack Robinson

1935 Wheaties box with Robinson photograph
Notre Dame Fighting Irish
Position Center
Career history
College Notre Dame (1932, 1934)
Personal information
Date of birth (1913-04-20)April 20, 1913
Place of birth Huntington, Long Island, New York
Date of death December 27, 1971(1971-12-27) (aged 58)
Place of death Garden City, New York
Career highlights and awards
Consensus All-American (1934)

John Joseph "Jack" Robinson, Jr.[1] (April 20, 1913 – December 27, 1971) was an American football player. A native of Huntington, New York, he played college football at the center position at the University of Notre Dame and was a consensus selection on the 1934 College Football All-America Team.[2][3]

Robinson was born into an affluent family from Long Island, New York and owned race horses during the time he was at Notre Dame.[4] In his later years, Robinson had his legs amputated due to blood clots. He also had a heart attack in September 1970 and was hospitalized at the Nassau Hospital.[5] He died on December 27, 1971 of another heart attack at his home in Garden City, New York.[6]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.archives.nd.edu/Football/Football-1932.pdf
  2. ↑ "2014 NCAA Football Records: Consensus All-America Selections" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2014. p. 5. Retrieved August 16, 2014.
  3. ↑ "Jack Robinson card". Collegiate Collection. 1990. Retrieved August 22, 2014.
  4. ↑ http://newspapers.bc.edu/cgi-bin/bostonsh?a=d&d=bcheights19341121.2.21
  5. ↑ http://www.archives.nd.edu/Alumnus/VOL_0048/VOL_0048_ISSUE_0007.pdf
  6. ↑ "Deaths Elsewhere", New Castle News, Tuesday, December 28, 1971, New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States Of America
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