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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
Years Club Games (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]

Early life

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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

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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.

Hay was captain-coach of Rutherglen in the Ovens & Murray Football League from 1962 to 1965.

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

Notes

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  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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