Robert Hyde is a former Australian rules football

Australian rules football

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...

er who played with the Collingwood

Collingwood Football Club

The Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed The Magpies, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League...

 and Essendon football teams in the Victorian Football League

Australian Football League

The Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...

 (VFL) during the 1970s.

Playing Career

Hyde played 63 senior VFL football games between 1973 and 1979. A defender, Hyde won the Copeland Trophy

Copeland Trophy

The E.W. Copeland Trophy is an Australian rules football award given by the Collingwood Football Club to the player adjudged Best and Fairest for Collingwood during the year....

 in 1976 for Collingwood's best and fairest player. Hyde played for Collingwood in both the drawn 1977 VFL Grand Final

1977 VFL Grand Final

The 1977 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the North Melbourne Football Club and the Collingwood Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 24 September 1977...

 and the Grand Final replay the following week. He finished his career with Essendon.

Coaching Career

Hyde coached the Calder Cannons

Calder Cannons

The Calder Cannons are an Australian rules football club from Melbourne, Australia.The club competes in the TAC Cup and fields squads in the U15, 16 and most importantly the U18s. The club was formed in 1995 after the need for two more metropolitan clubs...

 in the TAC Cup

TAC Cup

The TAC Cup is an under 18 Australian rules football representative competition held in Victoria, Australia. It is based on geographic regions throughout country Victoria and metropolitan Melbourne with each team representing 12 Victorian regions....

 from 1996 to 2006. He led the Cannons to five grand finals, winning three priemerships. After leaving Calder, he coached the Victorian Country team in the AFL National Under 18 Championships

AFL National Under 18 Championships

The NAB AFL Under 18 Championships are the annual national Australian rules football championships for players aged 18 years or younger. The competition is seen as one of the main pathways towards being drafted into a team in the fully professional Australian Football League...

. In 2012, Hyde is set to be the senior coach of the Northern Blues

Northern Blues

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 in the VFL

Victorian Football League

The Victorian Football League which evolved from the former Victorian Football Association , taking its new name as from the 1996 season, is the premier Australian rules football league in Victoria The Victorian Football League (VFL) which evolved from the former Victorian Football Association...

.

Personal life

Hyde is the principal of Greenbrook Primary School in Epping, Victoria.

The Robert Hyde medal

The Robert Hyde medal is awarded to the Calder Cannons' best and fairest

Best and Fairest

Best and Fairest is the term commonly used in Australian sport to describe the player adjudged to have had the best performance in a game or over a season for a given sporting club or competition while not receiving a suspension for misconduct or breaching the rules during that season.In the...

player each year.

External links

• Calder Cannons tribute to Robert Hyde, 2006, YouTube video, retrieved 2009-09-18