Bob Syme (30 November 1924 – 19 December 1993) was an
Australian rules football
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er and coach in the
Victorian Football League
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(VFL).
Player
A fast, vigorous and fiery
ruckman (he was suspended for four weeks in 1950), Syme joined
Essendon Essendon may refer to:
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*Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League
United King ...
in 1944.
He played in:
* Essendon's
1949 premiership team — Essendon 18.17 (125) to
Carlton
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6.16 (52).
* Essendon's
1950 premiership team — Essendon 13.14 (92) to
North Melbourne
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7.12 (54).
* Essendon's
1951 Grand Final team —
Geelong
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11.15 (81) to Essendon 10.10 (70).
Coach
He retired in 1953, and went to coach in the country.
He unsuccessfully applied for Essendon's vacant Senior coaching position in 1971; the position was awarded to
John Birt
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After a successful career in commercial television, initially at Granada Television an ...
.
[Mapleston, (1996), 216.]
He coached Essendon Reserves from 1971 to 1973. He coached
VFA club
Preston in 1974; he was replaced as coach by
Dick Telford
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six days before the start of the 1975 season.
He served on the Essendon Football Club Committee in 1953, and from 1981 to 1986.
See also
*
1949 Grand Final Teams
*
1950 Grand Final Teams
*
1951 Grand Final Teams
Footnotes
References
* Maplestone, M., ''Flying Higher: History of the Essendon Football Club 1872–1996'', Essendon Football Club, (Melbourne), 1996.
External links
*
Essendon Football Club players
Essendon Football Club premiership players
Preston Football Club (VFA) coaches
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
1924 births
1993 deaths
VFL/AFL premiership players
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