Ahmet Robenson

Ahmet Robenson
Personal information
Date of birth	1889
Place of birth	Kalimpong, British Raj
Date of death	1 January 1968 (aged 79)
Place of death	New York, United States
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years	Team
1905–1915	Galatasaray SK
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ahmet Robenson (born Peel Harold Robinson; 1889 – 1 January 1968) was a Turkish football player and physical education teacher at Galatasaray High School, who is known for his active role in the development of sports in Turkey.

Biography

He was born in Kalimpong, British Raj (modern day India). He lived most of his life in Istanbul and died in New York, United States. Ahmet had two brothers, Yakup and Abdurrahman, who were also interested in sports, however they were killed in action in World War I whilst fighting for the Ottomans against the British in the Sinai front.

After graduating from Galatasaray High School, Robenson was interested in new sports which were not recognized in his country at the time. He is known as being the first organizer of basketball, hockey, tennis, and Scouting activities in his time. He mostly introduced these new sports to his students in Galatasaray High School.

Robenson was also the goalkeeper of the Galatasaray football team, who won the Istanbul League title in 1909.

He later became Galatasaray S.K. president in 1926, and Galatasaray won the Istanbul League once again.

Scouting

The start of Scouting in Turkey is attributed to brothers Ahmet and Abdurrahman Robenson, who were sports teachers at the Galatasaray and Istanbul high schools in Istanbul in 1912,^[2] and to Nafi Arif Kansu and Ethem Nejat, with the first units organized at Darüşşafaka, Galatasaray, and İstanbul high schools, during the late Ottoman period.^[3]

Honours

Galatasaray SK

Istanbul Football League: 1908–1909, 1909–1910, 1910–1911

References

^ Gareth Winrow (10 February 2020). "Did You Know? ... This Ground-Breaking Turkish Sportsman lived in Tarrytown". Retrieved 8 May 2020 – via River Journal.
^ Rıza Bediz, "İzcilik ve İzci Kampları" (1955)
^ B. Sami Karayel, "İzci Rehberi" (1914)

Tekil, S. (1986). History of Galatasaray, 1905–1985, page (24). Galatasaray Spor Kulübü. OCLC 25025508
Tekil, S. (1983). Galatasaray 1905–1982: Memories, page (303). Arset Matbaacılık Koll. Şti. OCLC 62614035

External links

Media related to Ahmet Robenson at Wikimedia Commons

Sporting positions
Preceded by Ali Sami Yen	President of Galatasaray SK 17 Jul 1925 – 5 Sep 1925	Succeeded by Ali Haydar Şekip

[1] Gareth Winrow (10 February 2020). "Did You Know? ... This Ground-Breaking Turkish Sportsman lived in Tarrytown". Retrieved 8 May 2020 – via River Journal.

[2] Rıza Bediz, "İzcilik ve İzci Kampları" (1955)

[3] B. Sami Karayel, "İzci Rehberi" (1914)

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