Bob Hay (footballer, born 1938)

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Bob Hay
Personal information
Full name Robert Kent Hay
Date of birth(1938-06-13)13 June 1938
Place of birth Burnie, Tasmania
Original team(s) Longford
Height 188 cm (6 ft 2 in)
Weight 83 kg (183 lb)
Position(s) Ruck / Half Forward
Playing career1
YearsClubGames (Goals)
1960–61 St Kilda 17 (4)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1961.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Bob Hay (born 13 June 1938) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL). [1]

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Early life

Bob Hay was born in Burnie in 1938 to Mr and Mrs Ronald Hay. [2] He grew up in Deloraine and attended the local Area School. [3] [4] As a teenager, he was fortunate that his involvement in a motorcycle accident left him only shaken and not badly injured. [5]

Football career

Hay played with Longford in the NTFA during the mid to late 1950s and was coached by Fred Davies.

He then joined St Kilda in 1960.

When he returned to Tasmania, Hay played with Launceston in the NTFA during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Notes

  1. ↑ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 377. ISBN   978-1-921496-32-5.
  2. ↑ "Family Notices". The Advocate (Australia) . Tasmania, Australia. 15 June 1938. p. 2. Retrieved 16 July 2022– via National Library of Australia.
  3. ↑ "SCHOOL OF NEW TYPE". The Mercury . Vol. CLXX, no. 25, 228. Tasmania, Australia. 29 October 1951. p. 6. Retrieved 16 July 2022– via National Library of Australia.
  4. ↑ "SUNDAY SCHOOL CONCERT". The Examiner (Tasmania) . Vol. CIX, no. 144. Tasmania, Australia. 23 November 1950. p. 11 (The Examiner WOMEN'S SECTION). Retrieved 16 July 2022– via National Library of Australia.
  5. ↑ "Three Injured In Accidents". The Examiner (Tasmania) . Vol. CXIII, no. 83. Tasmania, Australia. 17 June 1954. p. 4. Retrieved 16 July 2022– via National Library of Australia.

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