Don Robbins
| Sport(s) | Football |
|---|---|
| Biographical details | |
| Born | c. 1934 (age 82–83) Fort Worth, Texas |
| Alma mater |
Texas A&M University B.S., M.Ed. |
| Playing career | |
| 1953–1955 | Texas A&M |
| Position(s) | End |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 196x–1965 | Big Spring HS (TX) |
| 1966–1967 | Texas Western / UTEP (assistant) |
| 1968–1969 | Idaho (assistant) |
| 1970–1973 | Idaho |
| 1976–? | Big Spring HS (TX) (TX) |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 20–24 (college) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| 1 Big Sky (1971) | |
Donald Roy Robbins (born c. 1934) is a former American football coach. He served as the head football coach at the University of Idaho from 1970 to 1973, compiling a record of 20–24.
Robbins was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and grew up primarily in Breckenridge. He graduated from Breckenridge High School in 1952, where his father Cooper was the head football coach for seven seasons (1945–1951). Cooper became the freshman football coach at Texas A&M in 1952, and son Don played for him that first season. Following his sophomore season, Paul "Bear" Bryant was hired as the head coach at A&M and Robbins was a member of the Junction Boys as a junior end in September 1954. Robbins graduated in 1956 and later earned a master's degree in education from A&M.
After coaching at Big Spring High School in Big Spring, Texas, Robbins became an assistant coach in 1966 at Texas Western College of the University of Texas—renamed as the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), in the 1967—under head coach Bobby Dobbs. After two seasons in El Paso, he was hired as an assistant at Idaho in April 1968, under first-year head coach Y C McNease. When McNease was dismissed after spring drills in May 1970, Robbins was promoted to head coach of the Vandals. His 1971 team had the best record (8-3) in the history of the school, but the next two seasons were less successful and he was dismissed in November 1973. He was succeeded by Ed Troxel, an assistant under Robbins and his two predecessors and the head track coach.
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