The Port Adelaide Football Club joins with the South Australian football community in paying tribute to the late SA football icon Bob Hank, who passed away today at the age of 88.
Hank, a member of the South Australian Football Hall of Fame and Australian Football Hall of Fame, played 224 games for the West Torrens Football Club, during which he won two premierships and captained the side for nine years.
He was involved with Port Adelaide during the Second World War, when the club combined with West Torrens to form “Port/Torrens” in order to continue operations while many players enlisted for service abroad.
From 1942 until the end of the war, the SANFL staged a four-team competition with a percentage of premiership winnings contributed to the war effort during that time.
Hank played with the combined team during his debut season of 1944 - running out in all 14 matches with the side including the Grand Final, eventually lost to ‘Norwood/North’.
The club extends its sympathies to Bob’s wife Audrey, his children and grand children.
