THE Port Adelaide Football Club extends its sincerest condolences to the family, friends and former club mates of two-time league premiership player John Robinson, who died on Saturday aged 87.
Robinson was awarded life membership of the SANFL in 2007 for his years of service to the game as a player for Port Adelaide and Glenelg and as a much-respected coach, official and committee man at the Bay.
A wiry defender, Robinson was part of Port Adelaide’s Australian record-breaking sides which won six SANFL premierships in-a-row, playing in the league grand final wins against West Adelaide in 1954 and Norwood in 1955.
Remarkably he also captained the club’s 1951 junior colts premiership side, played in a senior colts flag in 1952 and a reserves premiership in 1956.
After 42 league games, Robinson left Alberton at the end of the 1956 season and headed to the Bay, where he played a further 46 games with Glenelg.
He would spend a total of 65 years associated with Glenelg, serving as a coach in the colts program, and as a selector, recruiter and chairman, as well as being part of that club’s Hall of Fame selection committee right up until this year.
At Port Adelaide, he was elevated into the Hall of Fame with the 1954-59 premiership teams in 2018.
