Bob Dawson (footballer)

Bob Dawson
Bob Dawson
Personal information
Full name	Robert James Dawson
Date of birth	3 January 1921 (age 103)
Place of birth	Elmore, Victoria, Australia
Original team(s)	Elmore
Height	169 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	67 kg (148 lb)
Playing career1
Years	Club
1941	St Kilda
	1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1941.

Robert James Dawson (born 3 January 1921) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Dawson came from Elmore and spent just one year at St Kilda, playing four games in the 1941 VFL season.^[2] The following year he enlisted in the Australian Army and served overseas during the war.^[3] He had considerable success in country football, with best and fairest awards in three different Victorian leagues.^[4] In 1946, the same year he returned from the war, he played for Elmore in the Bendigo Football League and won the Michelsen Medal. He then coached Tongala in the Goulburn Valley Football League, where he was awarded a Morrison Medal in 1950.^[5] He turned 100 in 2021.^[6]

References

^ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia Of AFL Footballers. BAS Publishing. ISBN 978-1-920910-78-5.
^ AFL Tables: Bob Dawson
^ "WW2 Nominal Roll". Government of Australia. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
^ The Argus, "Hard pressed", 16 May 1952, p. 8
^ The Argus, "Tatura Will Stage Finals", 25 April 1952, p. 7
^ "Dawson reaches the ton". 5 January 2021.

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