Trevor Obst (21 June 1940 – 1 December 2015) 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

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(SANFL) during the 1960s and 1970s. Nicknamed "Bubbles", Obst was a

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specialist but occasionally ventured into the forward line and was used at times as a rover. In 1967 he was a surprise winner of the

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, becoming the tenth Port Adelaide player to have won the award. He was a member of Port Adelaide premiership teams in 1959, 1962, 1963 and 1965. When he retired in 1972 he had played 205 games for the club as well as six interstate matches for South Australia.

Personal life

Obst came from a famous Port Adelaide family; his father Ken, brother

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and nephew

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all played with distinction for Port Adelaide. Obst's grandson

Brad Ebert Bradley Ebert (born 2 April 1990) is a former Australian rules footballer who played in the Australian Football League (AFL) for the West Coast Eagles and . His father Craig Ebert played 112 games for during the 1980s. He is the nephew of R ...

also played for Port Adelaide in the AFL.

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* Port Adelaide Football Club (SANFL) players Port Adelaide Football Club players (all competitions) Magarey Medal winners Australian rules footballers from South Australia 2015 deaths 1940 births {{AFL-bio-1940s-stub