Robert Nash (Australian rules footballer)

Robert Nash
Personal information
Full name Robert Henry Nash
Date of birth 22 April 1884
Date of death 16 June 1958(1958-06-16) (aged 74)
Place of death Melbourne, Victoria
Original team(s) Northcote
Debut Round 11, 1904, Collingwood
v. Fitzroy, at Victoria Park
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1904–1909 Collingwood 88 (14)
1 Playing statistics correct to end of 1909 season.
Career highlights
  • Collingwood captain, 1908–1909
  • Represented Victoria, 1908

Robert Henry "Bob" Nash (22 April 1884 – 16 June 1958)[1] was a leading Australian rules footballer who captained Collingwood Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and captain coached Footscray Football Club in the Victorian Football Association (VFA). Nash is best known as the father of Test cricketer and leading footballer Laurie Nash.[2]

Born in Melbourne, the son of Mick Nash, who played for Carlton when it was part of the VFA,[2] Nash played for Northcote until his recruitment by Collingwood in 1904. Nash became a leading player at Collingwood, playing 88 games and kicking 14 goals in six seasons[3] Regarded as a powerful player who was a good mark and kick,[4] he captained Collingwood in 1908 and 1909 and represented Victoria at the first interstate carnival in Melbourne in 1908.[5]

After leaving Collingwood at the end of the 1910 VFL season, Nash spent two years as captain-coach of VFA side Footscray before retiring at the end of 1912.[4]

Initially employed as a gas stoker, Nash became a policeman, and went on strike in 1923 for better pay. He was dismissed from the force as a result[6] and instead moved his family to Tasmania to run the hotel at Parattah.[7] There he oversaw the sporting development of Laurie and his other son, Robert Jnr (who was also an accomplished footballer)[7] and initially encouraged Laurie to concentrate on cricket rather than football,[8] and then refused to allow Laurie to play senior football until age 19.[2]

Nash collapsed and died at the Melbourne Cricket Ground while a Collingwood match.[9][10]

See also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ "Bob Nash". Collingwood Forever. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
  2. 1 2 3 Wallish E.A. (1998) The Great Laurie Nash, Ryan Publishing, Melbourne. ISBN 0-9587059-6-8.
  3. ↑ "Bob Nash". stats.rleague. Retrieved 10 April 2008.
  4. 1 2 Full Points Footy http://www.fullpointsfooty.net/n-o.htm#Robert%20Nash%20(Northcote,%20Collingwood,%20Footscray) Accessed 9 April 2008.
  5. ↑ "Burns the 44th man to lead the Magpies". Collingwood Football Club website. Retrieved 9 April 2008.
  6. ↑ Flanigan, M. (1998) "Laurie Nash - The Genius", The Age, 5 May 1998
  7. 1 2 Shaw, I. (2006) The Bloodbath, Scribe, Melbourne. ISBN 1-920769-97-8.
  8. ↑ Main, J. & Holmesby, R. (2005) Encyclopedia of AFL Football Players AFL Publishing (2005) ISBN 1-920910-38-7
  9. ↑ McFarlane, Glenn (6 June 2012). "The biggest home and away crowd in history". Collingwood Football Club. Retrieved 15 June 2015.
  10. ↑ Wallish, p. 339.

References

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