Bob Wilkie | |
Fullname: | Robert Lawrence Wilkie |
Birth Date: | 3 July 1920 |
Birth Place: | Ballarat, Victoria[1] |
Death Place: | Melbourne |
Originalteam: | St Kilda CYMS |
Height: | 165 cm |
Weight: | 65 kg |
Position: | Wing |
Statsend: | 1951 |
Years1: | 1940–42, 1945–51 |
Games Goals1: | 117 (13) |
Robert LawrenceWilkie (3 July 1920 – 9 September 2001)[2] was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[3] In 1940 he weighed just 9 stone 6 pounds (60 kilograms) and was regarded as the lightest player in the league.[4]
During World War II he served with the RAAF.[5] In 1946 he married Dorothy Meehan, whose brothers, Jack and Tom, also played for St Kilda.
He later held various coaching and administrative posts at the St Kilda club.
His full-time job was with the Herald Sun newspaper. He lived in the Melbourne suburb of Cheltenham.