Robert McKenzie (footballer, born 1950)

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Robert McKenzie
Personal information
Full name Robert McKenzie
Date of birth (1950-05-31) 31 May 1950 (age 67)
Height 180 cm (5 ft 11 in)
Weight 77 kg (170 lb)
Playing career1
YearsClubGames (Goals)
1969–72 Melbourne 42 (21)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1972.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Robert Davis McKenzie (born 31 May 1950) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with 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.

Melbourne Football Club Australian rules football club

The Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed the Demons, is a professional Australian rules football club, playing in the Australian Football League (AFL). It is named after and based in the city of Melbourne, Victoria, and plays its home games at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG).

Australian Football League Australian rules football competition

The Australian Football League (AFL) is the pre-eminent professional competition of Australian rules football in Australia. Through the AFL Commission, the AFL also serves as the sport's governing body, and is responsible for controlling the laws of the game. The league was founded as the Victorian Football League (VFL) as a breakaway from the previous Victorian Football Association (VFA), with its inaugural season commencing in 1897. Originally comprising only teams based in the Australian state of Victoria, the competition's name was changed to the Australian Football League for the 1990 season, after expanding to other states throughout the 1980s.

His father Bob McKenzie was a dual Melbourne Premiership player in the 1940s and 1950s. [2]

Bob McKenzie (footballer) Australian rules footballer, born 1928

Robert Davis "Bobby" McKenzie III was an Australian rules football player, who played 125 games for the Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) between 1948 and 1955.

Notes

  1. ↑ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2009). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (8th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 555. ISBN   978-1-921496-00-4.
  2. ↑ Devaney, John. "Bob McKenzie biography". Australian Football.com.


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