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{{Short description|Australian rules footballer (1942–2020)}}
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{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2015}}
{{Use Australian English|date=September 2015}}
{{Infobox AFL biography
| name = Bob Hammond
| image = Bob Hammond (North Adelaide).jpg
| caption = Hammond in his North Adelaide playing days
| alt = A dark haired white man smiles off camera while wearing a red woolen football jumper featuring a white chevron
| fullname = Robert Allen Hammond
| birth_date = {{birth date|1942|2|16|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Perth, Western Australia]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|2020|05|30|1942|2|16|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Adelaide, South Australia]]
| originalteam = Kilburn
| height =
| weight =  
| position = Key defender
| statsend = 1974
| years1 = 1960–1973
| club1 = [[North Adelaide Football Club|North Adelaide]]
| games_goals1 = 234 (69)
| years2 = 1974
| club2 = [[Norwood Football Club|Norwood]]
| games_goals2 = {{0}}14 {{0}}(0)
| games_goalstotal = 248 (68)
| coachyears1 = 1974-1979
| coachclub1 = Norwood
| coachgames_wins1 = 141 (89–52–0)
| coachyears2 = 1984
| coachclub2 = [[Sydney Swans]]
| coachgames_wins2 = 8 (3–5–0)
| careerhighlights = * [[Australian Football Hall of Fame]] inductee 2015
}}
'''Robert Allen Hammond''' {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AM}} (16 February 1942 – 30 May 2020)<ref>{{cite web |title=Vale Bob Hammond: AFL in mourning for giant of SA football |url=https://www.afl.com.au/news/440624/ |website=afl.com.au |date=31 May 2020 |access-date=31 May 2020 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.afl.com.au/news/event-news/hall-of-fame/2015/bob-hammond|title=Bob Hammond|publisher=AFL.com.au|access-date=29 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190413141526/https://www.afl.com.au/news/event-news/hall-of-fame/2015/bob-hammond|archive-date=13 April 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref> was an [[Australian rules football]]er who played for [[North Adelaide Football Club|North Adelaide]] and [[Norwood Football Club|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 [[Australian Football League|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 Australian rules football team|South Australia]] at an interstate level in a win over [[Victoria Australian rules football team|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 the interstate level and he was in charge of the South Australian team which defeated Victoria for the first time at [[State of Origin (Australian rules football)|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 (Australian footballer)|Tony Franklin]] was a caretaker coach for a single game. Hammond initially said he would have been interested in continuing as Swan coach, but his business interests in Adelaide supermarkets forced him to resign in the second week after his final match with the club.<ref>{{cite news|last=Growden|first=Greg|title=Hammond Quits the Swans|work=[[The Age]]|date=11 September 1984|page=46}}</ref>

From 1991 to 2000, Hammond served as the chairman of the [[Adelaide Football Club]], a tenure during which they won two premierships.

In 2001 he was named as a [[back pocket]] in North Adelaide's official Team of the Century, then in 2002 was inducted into the [[South Australian Football Hall of Fame]], followed by the [[Australian Football Hall of Fame|AFL Hall of Fame]] in 2015. He was made a Member of the Order of Australia in June 2003.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1043768 |title=HAMMOND, Robert Allen |publisher=Australian Government - Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
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{{1960 North Adelaide premiership players}}
{{Norwood Football Club coaches}}
{{Sydney Swans coaches}}
{{North Adelaide Team of The Century}}
{{1983 South Australia State of Origin players}}

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[[Category:Recipients of the Australian Sports Medal]]