Robert “Bob” Peterson began his work under Carl Erickson, (who is also in the NATA Hall of Fame), at Northwestern University. He began in 1929 and worked at Northwestern until 1942 in which he was selected as the head trainer for Great Lakes Naval Training Center. He then went on as an athletic trainer at Indiana University, the University of California-Berkley and the University of Washington. Peterson, who is now retired, was inducted into the NATA Hall of Fame in 1981 and into the Northwest Athletic Trainers Hall of Fame in 1999.