Bob Elix

Bob Elix AM ASM is a former Australian rules footballer with Port Adelaide in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL), a long time official with the Northern Territory Football League (NTFL) and former longserving member of the Darwin City Council.

Career Elix played on the half-back flank for Port Adelaide when they won the 1965 SANFL Grand Final against Sturt Football Club.

His career as a SANFL player ended when he broke his leg during the Anzac Day match.

In June 1969 Elix moved to Darwin, where he was appointed captain/coach of NTFL club Darwin for the 1970/71 season.

A knee injury forced his playing retirement, and Elix switched to coaching fellow NTFL club Waratah, taking them to premiers in 1976/77, with Queen Elizabeth II a spectator at the grand final. was granted AFLNT Life Membership in 2010, and was a 2014 inductee to the AFL Hall of Fame. He was deputy mayor in 2016.

Elix was a contributor to Gods of Thunder, a history of the AFL in the Territory, by Jessica Webster, a former NT News journalist.