Col Anderson

Colin Anderson (born 31 August 1951) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Originally from the Mulwala Football Club which competed in the Murray Football League, Anderson was listed with Melbourne from 1969 to 1972. He made his VFL debut in the round 10 match against at Arden Street Oval where he was named as a ruck rover and was retained in the side the next week in the match against at Junction Oval for his final VFL match, in which he totalled two senior games for his career. where he went on to play 90 games and kick 93 goals.

He was also a professional sprinter where he won the 1975 Bendigo Two Thousand race. In 1980, there was speculation he would return to the VFL and sign with , however, he was unable to secure a transfer from Glenelg and returned to that SA club to try and help secure a premiership with the SANFL Tigers in 1980, where he played the entire season helping to get Glenelg into the GF. Coach John Halbert dropped him the morning of the GF into the reserves in favour of an untried shorter player, Tony McInnes, debuting into the 1st’s in the GF. The 1st’s lost and the Glenelg Reserves took the flag. A bitter-sweet end to Anderson’s career with the Bays. pla