Bob Hammond

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Bob Hammond
Personal information
Full name	Robert Hammond
Place of birth	Perth
Original team	Kilburn
Position(s)	Key defender
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1960–73 1974 Total -	North Adelaide Norwood	234 14 248
Coaching career
Years	Club	Games (W–L–D)
1984	Sydney Swans	8 (3)
¹ Playing statistics correct to end of 1974 season.
Career highlights

Robert 'Bob' Hammond is a former Australian rules footballer who played for North Adelaide and Norwood in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) during the 1960s and early 1970s. He later served as coach of the Sydney Swans in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Hammond played his early football at Kilburn before being recruited to North Adelaide. He took a while to break into the senior side but when he did in 1960 he was a member of their premiership team. A key defender, he also participated in North Adelaide's premiership years of 1971/72 and played in the club's 1972 Championship of Australia win.

While at North Adelaide he represented South Australia at interstate level in a win over Victoria in 1963, one of eight times that he would appear for his state.

Norwood lured Hammond to their club in 1974 as captain-coach and he went on to have success. After retiring as a player at the end of his initial season, Hammond steered them to premierships in 1975 and 1978.

His coaching career continued at interstate level and he was in charge of the South Australian team which defeated Victoria for the first time at State of Origin level, in 1983. The following year he coached the Sydney Swans in eight games during the 1984 VFL season after Ricky Quade resigned and Tony Franklin was caretaker coach for a single game.

From 1991 to 2000, Hammond served as the Chairman of the Adelaide Football Club, a tenure in which they won two premierships.

In 2001 he was named as a back pocket in North Adelaide's official 'Team of the Century' and in 2002 was inducted into the South Australian Football Hall of Fame.

References

Full Points Footy: Bob Hammond (Dead Link)
"The wondeful Bob Hammond" - redandwhiteonline.com
"Swan Songs" - sydneyswans.com.au

v t e Coaches of the South Melbourne Football Club/Sydney Swans

1909: Ricketts 1910–1911: Thomas 1912: Ricketts 1913: H. Kelly 1914–1917: Belcher 1918–1919: Elms/Howson 1920: Hiskins 1921: Wood 1922: Cazaly 1923–1928: Pannam 1929: Caldwell 1929: Fleiter 1930–1931: Scanlan 1932: Leonard 1933–1936: Bisset 1935: Diggins 1937–1938: Cazaly 1939: Matthews 1940: Baggott 1941–1944: J. Kelly 1945–1948: Adams 1948–1949: Hale 1950–1952: Lane 1953: Nash 1954–1957: Matthews 1958–1959: Clegg 1960–1961: Faul 1962–1964: McMahen 1965–1966: Skilton 1965: Lahiff 1967–1968: Miller 1969–1972: Smith 1973–1975: John 1976–1977: Stewart 1978: Tuddenham 1979–1981: Stewart 1982–1984: Quade 1984: Franklin 1984: Hammond 1985: Northey 1986–1988: Hafey 1989–1991: Kinnear 1992–1993: Buckenara 1993: Scott 1993–1995: Barassi 1996–2002: Eade 2002–2010: Roos 2011–: Longmire

Italics denote caretaker coach

Persondata
Name	Hammond, Robert
Alternative names
Short description	Australian rules footballer and coach
Date of birth
Place of birth	Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Date of death
Place of death

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