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{{short description|Australian rules footballer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2015}}
{{Use Australian English|date=September 2015}}
{{Infobox AFL biography
| name = Tim Robb
| image =
| fullname = Harold Warwick Robb
| birth_date = 17 December 1924
| birth_place = [[Yea, Victoria]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|1985|3|2|1924|12|17|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Albury]], New South Wales
| originalteam = [[Yarraville Football Club|Yarraville]] ([[Victorian Football Association|VFA]])
| height = 170 cm
| weight = 72 kg
| position =
| statsend = 1951
| years1 = 1947–1949
| club1 = [[Footscray Football Club|Footscray]]
| games_goals1 = 40 {{0}}(63)
| years2 = 1949–1951
| club2 = [[North Melbourne Football Club|North Melbourne]]
| games_goals2 = 34 {{0}}(51)
| games_goalstotal = 74 (114)
| coachyears1 = 1952-1953
| coachclub1 = [[The Rock Football Club|The Rock]]
| coachyears2 = 1954-1956
| coachclub2 = [[North Albury Football Club|North Albury]]
| coachyears3 = 1957–1962
| coachclub3 = [[Wagga Tigers Football Club|Wagga Tigers]]
| coachyears4 = 1963–1964
| coachclub4 = [[Collingullie Football Club|Collingullie]]
| coachyears5 = 1965–1967
| coachclub5 = [[North Wagga Football Club|North Wagga]]
| coachyears6 = 1969–1970
| coachclub6 = [[Wagga Tigers Football Club|Wagga Tigers]]
| coachyears7 = 1971
| coachclub7 = [[North Albury Football Club|North Albury]]
| coachyears8 = 1973-1975
| coachclub8 = [[Albury Football Club|Albury]]
| coachyears9 = 1978
| coachclub9 = [[Walbundrie Football Club|Walbundrie]]
| coachyears10 = 1982
| coachclub10 = [[Lockhart Football Club|Lockhart]]
| careerhighlights =
'''VFA'''
*1946 Argus Newspaper VFA Footballer of the Year
'''VFL'''
*1950 VFL Grand Final: North Melbourne
'''O&MFL'''
*1955 [[Ovens & Murray Football League|O&MFL]] Premiership: North Albury
'''Farrer FL'''
*1957, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1962 [[Farrer Football League|Farrer FL]] Premierships: Wagga Tigers
'''Milbrulong FL'''
*1963, 1964 [[Milbrulong Football League|Milbrulong FL]] Premierships: Collingullie
'''Hume FL'''
*1978 [[Hume Football League]] Premiership: Walbundrie
*1982 [[Hume Football League]] Premiership: Lockhart
}}
'''Harold Warwick''' "'''Tim'''" '''Robb''' (17 December 1924 – 2 March 1985)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://australianfootball.com/players/player/tim%2Brobb/7549|title=Tim Robb – Player Bio|publisher=Australian Football|accessdate=20 November 2014}}</ref> was an [[Australian rules football]]er who played with [[Footscray Football Club|Footscray]] and [[North Melbourne Football Club|North Melbourne]] in the [[Victorian Football League (1897–1989)|VFL]].
Robb shared the 1946 Argus Cup newspaper award for the best and fairest player in the [[Victorian Football Association]], when representing the [[Yarraville Football Club]].<ref>{{cite web |title=1946 - Argus Cup |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/22387627 |publisher=The Argus |access-date=19 November 2022 |pages=11 |date=9 October 1946}}</ref> Robb finished fourth in the 1946 VFA Recorder Cup trophy, with 23 votes.<ref>{{cite web |title=Findlay wins Recorder Cup |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/22326996 |website=The Argus |publisher=The Argus |access-date=19 November 2022 |pages=12 |date=12 September 1946}}</ref>
Robb played as a rover and was also a capable goalkicker for his clubs. His first club was Footscray with whom he debuted in 1947 and spent two and a half seasons there. During the 1949 season he transferred to North Melbourne. He was a member of North Melbourne's inaugural [[1950 VFL Grand Final]] team and kicked two goals in a losing cause.
Prior to playing VFL football, Robb served in both the Australian Army<ref>{{cite web |url=https://nominal-rolls.dva.gov.au/veteran?id=590988&c=WW2 |title=World War II Roll: ROBB, Harold Warwick (Army) |publisher=Department of Veterans Affairs}}</ref> and the Royal Australian Navy<ref>{{cite web |url=https://nominal-rolls.dva.gov.au/veteran?id=1159820&c=WW2 |title=World War II Roll: ROBB, Harold Warwick (Navy) |publisher=Department of Veterans Affairs}}</ref> during world War II.
Robb coached The Rock Football Club in 1952<ref>{{cite web |title=1952 -  Melbourne League Star Praises Standard of District Football |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/175474381 |publisher=The Observer (Henty, NSW) |access-date=5 February 2022 |pages=1 |date=4 July 1952}}</ref> & 1953 in the [[Albury & District Football League]] and was runner up in the league's best and fairest medal on a count back in 1952<ref>{{cite web |title=1952 - Albury star for North |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/244384861 |publisher=The Herald (Melbourne, Vic) |access-date=4 February 2022 |pages=16 |date=6 August 1952}}</ref> and was runner up again in the medal in 1953.<ref>{{cite web |title=1953 -  Culcairn Win Second Successive A. & D. League Premiership |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/176510519 |publisher=The Observer (Henty, NSW) |access-date=4 February 2022 |pages=9 |date=11 September 1953}}</ref>
Robb accepted the coaching position at [[North Albury Football Club|North Albury]] in 1954.<ref>{{cite web |title=1953 - Tim Robb's letter |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/145645515 |publisher=Daily Advertiser (Wagga Wagga, NSW) |access-date=5 February 2022 |pages=8 |date=19 March 1954}}</ref> and was captain coach of their 1955 O&MFL premiership and were runners up in 1956.<ref>{{cite web |title=O&MFNL Grand Finals |url=https://omfnl.com.au/grand-finals/ |website=Ovens & Murray FNL |access-date=19 November 2022 |date=1955}}</ref>
Robb was captain-coach of the [[Ovens & Murray Football League]] Inter-league side that won the 1955 Victorian Country Football Championships in Albury.<ref>{{cite web |title=1955 -  OVENS-MURRAY ARE COUNTRY FOOTY KINGS |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/71888103 |publisher=The Argus |access-date=17 August 2022 |pages=7 |date=14 June 1955}}</ref>
Robb moved to Wagga as captain-coach of the Wagga Tigers and led them to five premierships, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1961 and 1962 and runners up in 1960.<ref>{{cite web |title=Wagga Tigers - Honourboard |url=https://www.waggatigers.com.au/seniors/ |website=Wagga Tigers FNC |access-date=7 February 2022}}</ref> He then coached Collingullie to back to back [[Milbrulong Football League]] premierships in 1963 and 1964.
In 1960, Robb, a rover-forward topped the [[Farrer Football League]] goalkicking list with 69 goals ahead of Culcairn’s evergreen Harry “Splinter” Liston with 65.<ref>{{cite web |title=Lockhart’s Stunning Win Over Favourites Wagga Tigers in the 1960 Grand Final |url=https://www.nswfootballhistory.com.au/tag/bert-schmidt/ |website=NSW Football History |access-date=7 February 2022 |date=14 May 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=1960 - Farrer FL - "The Crier" |url=https://www.nswfootballhistory.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/ACC-613-0018-1960-08-20-Farrer-FL-The-Crier-Match-Programme-Vol.1-No.-18.pdf |website=NSW Football History |access-date=7 February 2022}}</ref>
Robb retired from playing after the 1967 football season.
Robb was captain coach of three teams in major leagues that made ten successive grand finals, between 1955 and 1964 for eight premierships!<ref>{{cite web |title=Tim Robb: A Magnificent Career |url=https://www.nswfootballhistory.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/1993-07-10-Ovens-Murray-Football-League-The-Critic-Vol.-59-No.15.pdf |website=NSW Football History |publisher=O&MFNL Critic |access-date=19 November 2022 |pages=20 |date=1993}}</ref>
Robb coached Walbundrie to a [[Hume Football League]] premiership in 1978 and then coached Lockhart to the 1981 [[Hume Football League]] premiership.
==References==
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==External links==
*{{AFL Tables|ref=T/Tim_Robb.html}}
*{{AustralianFootball|ref=tim%2Brobb/7549}}
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