Bob B. Johnson

Infobox afl player | firstname = Bob
lastname = Johnson




birthdate = 3 June 1935
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heightweight = 198 cm / 96 kg
dead =
deathdate = ca 2002
deathplace = Queensland
debutdate = 1954
debutteam = Melbourne
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playingteams = Melbourne (1954-61)
* 140 games, 267 goals
coach = notcoach
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statsend = 1961
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Robert Johnson (born 3 June 1935) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne in the VFL during the 1950s. His father of the same name also played for the club.

Johnson was a 198 cm ruckman and as one of the tallest footballers to have played the game earned the nickname 'Big Bob'. He was also regularly rested up forward and averaged almost 2 goals a game during his career. Johnson debuted for Melbourne at the age of 19 in 1954 and became part of the most successful era of the club's history. He went on to play in 7 VFL Grand Finals of which of which 5 were won. He also topped their goalkicking in 1956 and 1961, the former in a premiership year.

His post VFL career was firstly spent at East Fremantle where he served as captain-coach in their premiership side of 1965. He also topped the league's goalkicking with 92 goals in 1966, short though of his effort the previous season when he managed 105 goals. He was a Western Australian representative at the 1966 Hobart Carnival.

After a short stint with Subiaco he returned to Victoria in 1970 where he joined Oakleigh. He had watched Oakleigh as a boy and the club had approached him as a 15 year old to join them but Johnson decided to join his father's old club. After becoming captain-coach of Oakleigh in 1971, he led them to the premiership in 1972, at the age of 37.

References

*AflRleague|ref=B/Bob_Johnson1.html
* [http://www.fullpointsfooty.net/i-j.htm#Robert%20B.%20Johnson%20(Melbourne,%20East%20Fremantle,%20Subiaco,%20Oakleigh) Full Point Footy Biography: Bob B. Johnson]