Bob Makeham | |
Fullname: | Robert Makeham |
Birth Date: | 6 November 1901 |
Birth Place: | Welshpool, Victoria |
Death Place: | Korumburra South, Victoria |
Originalteam: | Kernot |
Height: | 185 cm |
Weight: | 85 kg |
Statsend: | 1932 |
Years1: | 1923–1932 |
Club1: | Collingwood |
Games Goals1: | 157 (97) |
Robert Michael Makeham (6 November 1901 – 3 February 1974) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
He married Doris Mary McKinnon (1902–1989) on 12 September 1934, at Dandenong, Victoria.[1]
Recruited from the Kernot Football Club (the 1922 premiers) in the Bass Valley Football Association in southeastern Victoria.[2]
After being part of losing VFL Grand Finals in 1925 and 1926 he played in Collingwood premiership sides the next four seasons.[3]
A versatile player, Makeham played his early football as a centre-half forward and follower before settling into the half back and half forward flanks.
Makeham coached the Maryborough Football Club in the Bendigo Football League (BFL) in 1933,[4] in which they lost the 1933 BFL grand final to Sandhurst.[5] [6]
He died at Korumburra South on 3 February 1974.[7]