Robert W. "Bob" Murray (born 5 April 1942) is a former

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 Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified ...

er in the VFL. Murray played with St Kilda initially as a forward, kicking four goals on debut, but soon moved to full-back. He starred in St Kilda's 1966 Grand Final win, taking a mark in defence with seconds left in the game. He won the

Trevor Barker Award The Trevor Barker Award is an Australian rules football award for the player voted the St Kilda Football Club best and fairest player during the home and away season in the Australian Football League by a voting panel. The St Kilda Best & Faire ...

as St Kilda's best and fairest player in 1969. Murray also played in the

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for the

Sandringham Football Club The Sandringham Football Club, nicknamed the Zebras, is an Australian rules football club based in the Melbourne suburb of Sandringham, Victoria, Sandringham. It currently competes in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and the VFL Women's (VF ...

. Prior to his time at St Kilda, he played 52 games for Sandringham, including (in the last game of that stint) Sandringham's 1962 premiership in which it came back from a 44-point three-quarter-time deficit to defeat

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by one point. After his time at St Kilda, he returned to play 2½ seasons with Sandringham from 1974 until 1976. Murray won Sandringham's 1974 best and fairest award. Murray coached Tarrawingee Football Club in the

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from 1981 to 1983 and played a handful of games in 1981 and 1982, kicking 40 goals. Murray later coached

Wangaratta Rovers Football Club The Wangaratta Rovers Football Club, nicknamed the Hawks, is an Australian rules football club based in the Victorian city of Wangaratta. History Wangaratta Rovers were initially formed in 1922 and competed in the Wangaratta District Footbal ...

reserves team from 2004 to 2008, winning a premiership in 2007, after being runners up in 2005 and 2006.

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