Robert Harvey Bawden (28 February 1917 – 22 July 1980) was an

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...

er who played with

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in the

Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). It ...

(VFL) during the early 1940s. Bawden originally played with Leongatha Imperials Football Club and was a member of their 1932 and Leongatha FC's 1934 and 1935 premiership teams. In 1935, Bawden played 16 games with

Victorian Football Association The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). It ...

(VFA) club Oakleigh. He returned to Morwell and played in their premiership and won the 1937 Rodda Memorial Gold Medal in the Central Gippsland Football Association before joining Richmond in 1939. Over the course of his career there Bawden acted as second ruckman to Richmond great

Jack Dyer John Raymond Dyer Sr. OAM (15 November 1913 – 23 August 2003), nicknamed Captain Blood, was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Richmond Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) between 1931 and 1949. One of the ga ...

. When not rucking he was used in the

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and was a member of Richmond's 1943 VFL premiership team. He also participated in three losing VFL Grand Finals, in

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and

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. From 1946 onwards for a few years he played for City and then Cornwall in the Northern Tasmanian Football Association (NTFA). He was the brother of Essendon player, Tom Bawden.

References

External links

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Bob Bawden's Tigerland Archive Profile
* 1917 births Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Richmond Football Club players Richmond Football Club Premiership players Oakleigh Football Club players Morwell Football Club players 1980 deaths East Launceston Football Club players One-time VFL/AFL Premiership players {{AFL-bio-1917-stub