Robert Robinson

Who is Robert Robinson?

Robert Jackson "Jackie" Robinson is a retired American Baptist pastor and theologian and was a college basketball player who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics.

A native of Fort Worth, Robinson is a graduate of Baylor University, Waco,Tex.; Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth; and Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa.

He did additional graduate study at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland; earned the doctor of theology degree from Southwestern Seminary; and was awarded an honorary doctor of divinity degree from Howard Payne College, Brownwood, Tex. In all Dr. Robinson has earned doctorates from four different universities.

In athletic accomplishments, Robinson was an All-American basketball player, 1946–48, while at Baylor University. Awarded the Jack Dempsey outstanding athlete award in 1947, he won a gold medal as an outstanding guard on the 1948 Olympic basketball team in London. During the Olympics he was among a group of athletes who went to Buckingham Palace and were formerly presented to the King, the Queen and the then Queen Mother.