Bill Roberts
Essendon
AFL career
12 games1 goals
- Debut
- R10 1931 v COL11 July 1931
- Most recent
- R6 1933 v FIT3 June 1933
Stats
Bio
Recruited from Nhill in the Wimmera region, Bill Roberts was a versatile flanker who featured for Essendon in two separate stints during the early 1930s. Capable of playing on both the half-back and half-forward lines, he broke into the senior side late in the 1931 season but struggled to cement a permanent spot, spending the entire 1932 season out of the team before managing a handful of games in 1933. After his brief VFL career concluded with 12 appearances, Roberts established himself as a star of country football, playing for Warrnambool before winning premierships with both Horsham and Stawell in the Wimmera Football League. He later served in the RAAF during World War II and returned to Horsham as a non-playing coach in 1946.
Profile
- Full name
- Bill H. Roberts
- Born
- 22 July 1910
- Died
- 08 Dec 1973 (aged 63y 139d)
- Birthplace
- Nhill, VIC
- Deathplace
- Seville, VIC
Teams
Bio
1 revisionRecruited from Nhill in the Wimmera region, Bill Roberts was a versatile flanker who featured for Essendon in two separate stints during the early 1930s. Capable of playing on both the half-back and half-forward lines, he broke into the senior side late in the 1931 season but struggled to cement a permanent spot, spending the entire 1932 season out of the team before managing a handful of games in 1933. After his brief VFL career concluded with 12 appearances, Roberts established himself as a star of country football, playing for Warrnambool before winning premierships with both Horsham and Stawell in the Wimmera Football League. He later served in the RAAF during World War II and returned to Horsham as a non-playing coach in 1946.