Bob McLean (Australian footballer)

Bob McLean
Personal information
Full name	Allan Robert Charles McLean
Nickname(s)	Bob
Date of birth	1 February 1914
Place of birth	Mile End, South Australia
Date of death	9 November 1989(1989-11-09) (aged 75)
Place of death	Adelaide
Height	194 cm (6 ft 4 in)
Weight	99 kg (218 lb)
Position(s)	Ruckman
Playing career1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1934–1938	Norwood	074 0(57)
1939–1948	Port Adelaide	147 (414)
1941	St Kilda	003 00(3)
Representative team honours
Years	Team	Games (Goals)
	South Australia	9
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1948.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Allan Robert Charles "Bob" McLean (1 February 1914 – 9 November 1989) was an Australian rules footballer who played for Port Adelaide and Norwood in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) and St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Affectionately referred to as "Big Bob" McLean, he later became a long serving football administrator in South Australia. He was also a good cricketer, representing South Australia in the Sheffield Shield and topped the Australian bowling and batting averages in 1947.

As a player, McLean was mainly a ruckman but was also handy around goals, kicking 471 of them during his 221-game SANFL career. He started out at Norwood before crossing to Port Adelaide and participating in their 1939 premiership win. On four occasions he topped Port Adelaide's goal-kicking — 1940, 1941, 1947 and 1948. His tally of 80 goals in 1947 was enough to win him the league's leading goal-kicker award. He also represented South Australia in nine interstate matches over the course of his career.

While on military service in Melbourne he made three appearances for St Kilda in the 1941 VFL season.

McLean, a right-handed batsman and a legbreak bowler, appeared in 20 first-class cricket matches for his state. He made 897 first-class runs at an average of 28.93 and took 65 wickets at 38.36.

Both of his two first-class hundreds were scored in a one-week period in the Sheffield Shield, towards the end of December 1949. The first was an innings of 213 which he made opening the batting against Queensland at the Adelaide Oval, dwarfing his team's next highest score of 45. Just two days after that match ended, South Australia met Victoria at the Melbourne Cricket Ground and McLean, opening the batting once more, scored 135 and again outshone his teammates with the next best effort being 31. Victoria's bowling lineup consisted of Test cricketer Doug Ring as well as future Test players Jack Hill and Jack Iverson.