Bob Wiltshire

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Bob Wiltshire
Personal information
Date of birth(1932-11-24)24 November 1932
Date of death 12 August 2015(2015-08-12) (aged 82)
Original team(s) Foster
Height 192 cm (6 ft 4 in)
Weight 104 kg (229 lb)
Position(s) Ruck
Playing career1
YearsClubGames (Goals)
1954–57 Geelong 30 (12)
1957–59 North Melbourne 36 (4)
Total66 (16)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1959.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Bob Wiltshire (24 November 1932 –12 August 2015) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong and North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL). [1]

Australian rules football Contact sport invented in Melbourne

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, or simply called Aussie rules, football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of eighteen players on an oval-shaped field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by kicking the oval-shaped ball between goal posts or between behind posts.

Geelong Football Club Australian rules football club

The Geelong Football Club, nicknamed the Cats, are a professional Australian rules football club based in the city of Geelong, Australia. The club competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the highest level of Australian rules football in Australia. The Cats have been the VFL/AFL premiers nine times, with three in the AFL era. The Cats have also won nine McClelland Trophies, a record shared with Essendon.

North Melbourne Football Club Australian rules football club

The North Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed the Kangaroos or less formally the Roos, the Kangas or North, is the fourth oldest Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League (AFL) and is one of the oldest sporting clubs in Australia and the world. It is based at the Arden Street Oval in the inner Melbourne suburb of North Melbourne, Victoria, but plays its home matches at the nearby Docklands Stadium.

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. 963. ISBN   978-1-921496-32-5.


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