University of Maine Athletics

Robert Bennett was a National Champion and All-American in the hammer throw in 1940. Despite having his athletic career interrupted by World War II, he set national hammer throw records in 1940 and 1948. In 1947 he was voted Outstanding Amateur Athlete in New England and was nominated for the Sullivan Award given to the national's top amateur athlete. As an Olympic competitor, he won a bronze medal in the 1948 hammer throw. Bennett later became an assistant track coach and assistant athletic director at Brown.