Career
As a teenager, he played in the 1942 United States Open, but his career was cut short when he was drafted into World World War World War II When Robert Edsol Bennett was born on April 12, 1923, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, his father, Ralph, was 29 and his mother, Sophia, was 27. He had two sons with Marilynn Jean Rex. Both were lawyers and excellent athletes, one playing basketball for Dean Smith"s North Carolina Tar Heels and drafted by the New York Knicks in the late rounds of the 1966 draft.
He died on August 20, 1995, in his hometown, at the age of 72.
