Tim Robb

Harold Warwick "Tim" Robb (17 December 1924 – 2 March 1985)[1] was an Australian rules footballer who played with Footscray and North Melbourne in the VFL.

Tim Robb
Personal information
Full name Harold Warwick Robb
Date of birth 17 December 1924
Place of birth Yea, Victoria
Date of death 2 March 1985(1985-03-02) (aged 60)
Place of death Albury, New South Wales
Original team(s) Yarraville (VFA)
Height 170 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Weight 72 kg (159 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1947–1949 Footscray 40 0(63)
1949–1951 North Melbourne 34 0(51)
Total 74 (114)
Coaching career
Years Club Games (W–L–D)
1952-1953 The Rock
1954-1956 North Albury
1957–1962 Wagga Tigers
1963–1964 Collingullie
1965–1967 North Wagga
1969–1970 Wagga Tigers
1971 North Albury
1973-1975 Albury
1978 Walbundrie
1982 Lockhart
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1951.
Career highlights

VFA

  • 1946 Argus Newspaper VFA Footballer of the Year

VFL

  • 1950 VFL Grand Final: North Melbourne

O&MFL

  • 1955 O&MFL Premiership: North Albury

Farrer FL

  • 1957, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1962 Farrer FL Premierships: Wagga Tigers

Milbrulong FL

  • 1963, 1964 Milbrulong FL Premierships: Collingullie

Hume FL

Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Robb shared the 1946 Argus Cup newspaper award for the best and fairest player in the Victorian Football Association, when representing the Yarraville Football Club.[2] Robb finished fourth in the 1946 VFA Recorder Cup trophy, with 23 votes.[3]

Robb played as a rover and was also a capable goalkicker for his clubs. His first club was Footscray with whom he debuted in 1947 and spent two and a half seasons there. During the 1949 season he transferred to North Melbourne. He was a member of North Melbourne's inaugural 1950 VFL Grand Final team and kicked two goals in a losing cause.

Prior to playing VFL football, Robb served in both the Australian Army[4] and the Royal Australian Navy[5] during world War II.

Robb coached The Rock Football Club in 1952[6] & 1953 in the Albury & District Football League and was runner up in the league's best and fairest medal on a count back in 1952[7] and was runner up again in the medal in 1953.[8]

Robb accepted the coaching position at North Albury in 1954.[9] and was captain coach of their 1955 O&MFL premiership and were runners up in 1956.[10]

Robb was captain-coach of the Ovens & Murray Football League Inter-league side that won the 1955 Victorian Country Football Championships in Albury.[11]

Robb moved to Wagga as captain-coach of the Wagga Tigers and led them to five premierships, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1961 and 1962 and runners up in 1960.[12] He then coached Collingullie to back to back Milbrulong Football League premierships in 1963 and 1964.

In 1960, Robb, a rover-forward topped the Farrer Football League goalkicking list with 69 goals ahead of Culcairn’s evergreen Harry “Splinter” Liston with 65.[13][14]

Robb retired from playing after the 1967 football season.

Robb was captain coach of three teams in major leagues that made ten successive grand finals, between 1955 and 1964 for eight premierships![15]

Robb coached Walbundrie to a Hume Football League premiership in 1978 and then coached Lockhart to the 1981 Hume Football League premiership.

References
  1. "Tim Robb – Player Bio". Australian Football. Retrieved 20 November 2014.
  2. "1946 - Argus Cup". The Argus. 9 October 1946. p. 11. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
  3. "Findlay wins Recorder Cup". The Argus. The Argus. 12 September 1946. p. 12. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
  4. "World War II Roll: ROBB, Harold Warwick (Army)". Department of Veterans Affairs.
  5. "World War II Roll: ROBB, Harold Warwick (Navy)". Department of Veterans Affairs.
  6. "1952 - Melbourne League Star Praises Standard of District Football". The Observer (Henty, NSW). 4 July 1952. p. 1. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
  7. "1952 - Albury star for North". The Herald (Melbourne, Vic). 6 August 1952. p. 16. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
  8. "1953 - Culcairn Win Second Successive A. & D. League Premiership". The Observer (Henty, NSW). 11 September 1953. p. 9. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
  9. "1953 - Tim Robb's letter". Daily Advertiser (Wagga Wagga, NSW). 19 March 1954. p. 8. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
  10. "O&MFNL Grand Finals". Ovens & Murray FNL. 1955. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
  11. "1955 - OVENS-MURRAY ARE COUNTRY FOOTY KINGS". The Argus. 14 June 1955. p. 7. Retrieved 17 August 2022.
  12. "Wagga Tigers - Honourboard". Wagga Tigers FNC. Retrieved 7 February 2022.
  13. "Lockhart's Stunning Win Over Favourites Wagga Tigers in the 1960 Grand Final". NSW Football History. 14 May 2020. Retrieved 7 February 2022.
  14. "1960 - Farrer FL - "The Crier"" (PDF). NSW Football History. Retrieved 7 February 2022.
  15. "Tim Robb: A Magnificent Career" (PDF). NSW Football History. O&MFNL Critic. 1993. p. 20. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
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