Career
He also served as NSW and Australian coach in 1948 and 1958 respectively. Robinson was graded at Balmain in 1922 as a halfback. Robinson was selected in the New South Wales rugby league team between 1925-1926, 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.
Robinson then returned to Sydney and continued playing for Balmain. The final years of his career were spent playing for Yanco"s club
Robinson had three separate coaching spells with the Balmain club He coached the Balmain Tigers in 1930, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1954, 1955 and 1956 before retiring.
He was coach of New South Wales in 1948.
Also, in 1953, he coached the American "All Stars" during their tour of Australia. He was appointed coach of the Australian team for the 1958 Ashes series against the touring Great Britain Lions. Robinson was for many years after his playing retirement a Secretary-Manager of the Balmain Leagues Club.
Together with the Street 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.
Robinson was awarded a Life Membership of that organisation for outstanding service to the club industry.
