title: Bert McComb
text: # Bert McComb
  
  Albert Thomas McComb (27 September 1906 – 24 December 1981) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon and Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
  
  ## Family
  
  The son of Edmund Kerr McComb (1873–1957) and Sarah Ann McComb, nee Bedford (1878–1973), Albert Thomas McComb was born at Frankston on 27 September 1906.
  
  ## Football
  
  ### Essendon
  
  After commencing his career with Frankston, McComb trialled with Essendon at the start of the 1924 VFL season before joining them in 1925. He played the first three games of the season but was then dropped.
  
  ### Hawthorn
  
  Halfway through the 1925 season McComb secured a clearance to Hawthorn and he made three appearances for them in the second half of the season.
  
  ### Frankston
  
  McComb commenced the 1926 season with Hawthorn but was cleared back to Frankston without making a senior appearance.
  
  ### Stawell
  
  In 1927 he again commenced the season with Hawthorn but after failing to make the team was cleared to Stawell Football Club in June.
  
  ### Hawthorn
  
  McComb again returned to Hawthorn for the 1928 VFL season and he made a further 15 appearances over two seasons.
  
  ### Frankston
  
  He then returned to Frankston for the 1930 season where he both played and coached for several years.
  
  ### Port Campbell
  
  McComb was captain coach of Port Campbell from 1936 to 1939, leading them to premierships in his first two seasons with the club.
  
  ## Later life
  
  In 1941 Albert McComb married Enid Ethel Langham and they lived in Kew while he worked at the Australian Paper Mills in Fairfield.
  
  McComb also served in the Australian Army for 18 months during World War II.
  
  After his retirement the McCombs moved to Frankston, where they lived until his death in 1981. Albert McComb is buried with his wife at Frankston Cemetery.
  
  