Bob Wilkie (footballer)

Bob Wilkie
Personal information
Full name Robert Lawrence Wilkie
Date of birth (1920-07-03)3 July 1920
Place of birth Ballarat, Victoria[1]
Date of death 9 September 2001(2001-09-09) (aged 81)
Place of death Melbourne
Original team(s) St Kilda CYMS
Height 165 cm (5 ft 5 in)
Weight 65 kg (143 lb)
Position(s) Wing
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1940–42, 1945–51 St Kilda 117 (13)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1951.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Robert LawrenceWilkie (3 July 1920 – 9 September 2001)[2] was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[3] In 1940 he weighed just 9 stone 6 pounds (60 kilograms) and was regarded as the lightest player in the league.[4]

During World War II he served with the RAAF.[5] In 1946 he married Dorothy Meehan, whose brothers, Jack and Tom, also played for St Kilda.

He later held various coaching and administrative posts at the St Kilda club.

His full-time job was with the Herald Sun newspaper. He lived in the Melbourne suburb of Cheltenham.

  1. ^ "WW2 Nominal Roll". Government of Australia.
  2. ^ "Bob Wilkie - Player Bio". Australian Football. Retrieved 9 May 2015.
  3. ^ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 951. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  4. ^ The Argus, 19 July 1940, p.14
  5. ^ ww2roll.gov.au