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Noel Laurence Allanson (25 December 1925 – 7 February 2022) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Family

The son of Laurence Alexander Allanson (1898-1987), and Eva Charlotte Allanson (1900-1975), née Syer, Noel Laurence Allanson was born at North Carlton, Victoria on Christmas Day (25 December) 1925.

He married Betty Grace Walton on 13 March 1951 at Essendon North, Victoria.

Military service

Prior to his sporting career, Allanson served as an able seaman in the Royal Australian Navy during the later stages of World War II, and was present in Tokyo Bay in 1945 when the Japanese surrender was signed aboard the United States Navy battleship USS Missouri.

Football

Essendon (VFL)

Allanson was an Essendon local and at the end of his debut season played in the 1947 VFL Grand Final. Essendon lost the game but he got another chance to play in a premiership in 1950, this time finishing on the winning team.

He was a defender and kicked the only goal of his career at Glenferrie Oval against Hawthorn.

Williamstown (VFA)

During 1951, Allanson transferred to Williamstown in the VFA and played 26 games over two seasons, kicking one goal, and winning the club's most effective player award in 1952, as well as the Williamstown Chronicle best player award.

Cricket

In 1957 Allanson played a first-class cricket match for Victoria against Tasmania, making 24 in his only innings.

Noel Allanson passed away on Monday 7th February, aged 96.
Noel played 180 Premier 1st XI matches across 18 seasons from 1942/43 to 1962/63, scoring 4,463 runs @ 24.65 with 4 centuries (top of 110) and 18 half centuries, taking 20 wickets @ 26.20 (best 4/22) and 72 catches.
Noel also served as Essendon CC Secretary in 1969/70.
Noel represented Victoria in 1 First Class game in the 1956/57 against Tasmania, holding Cap #577.
Noel was only required to bat once (scoring 24) and took a catch in the 1st Innings. — Obituary, Cricket Victoria, 9 February 2022.

Club official

Allanson was vice-president of Essendon Football Club in 1976 and 1977 and treasurer from 1978 to early 1991. He was inducted into the Club's Hall of Fame in 2015.

Death

Noel Allanson died at East Malvern, Victoria on 7 February 2022, at the age of 96, and was the last surviving member of the 1950 Essendon premiership team.

See also

• List of Victoria first-class cricketers

Notes

1. Holmesby & Main (2014), p165.
2. Marriages: Allanson—Syer, The Argus, (Saturday, 31 January 1925), p.15.
3. Births: Allanson, The Argus, (Saturday, 23 January 1926), p.17.
4. Pearl Tiara, (also photograph), The Age, (Wednesday, 14 March 1951), p.5.
5. Nominal Roll.
6. Cullen (2015), p.237.
7. "CARLTON WIN PREMIERSHIP IN LAST FEW SECONDS". The Argus. No. 31, 537. Victoria, Australia. 29 September 1947. p. 18.
8. "ALLANSON GETS HIS BIG CHANCE". The Argus. Victoria, Australia. 14 January 1957. p. 15.
9. Rice, Will, "Vale Noel Allinson (sic) and Norma Gardner (nee Wilson)", premier.cricketvictoria.com.au, Wednesday, 9 February 2022.
10. Maplestone (1996), p.417.
11. "Hall of Fame: Noel Allanson". essendonfc.com.au. 29 June 2015. Retrieved 17 June 2020.
12. "Vale Noel Allanson". essendonfc.com.au. 7 February 2022. Retrieved 7 February 2022.

References

• World War Two Nominal Roll: Able Seaman Noel Lawrence Allanson (PM7211), Department of Veterans' Affairs
• World War Two Service Record: Able Seaman Noel Lawrence Allanson (PM7211), National Archives of Australia
• League Teams of 1950 — Essendon, The Argus, (Saturday, 3 June 1950), p.1.
• Cullen, Barbara (2015). Harder than Football: League Players at War. Richmond, Victoria: Slattery Media Group. ISBN 978-0-992379-14-8.
• Holmesby, Russell & Main, Jim (2014), The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.), Melbourne, Victoria: Bas Publishing. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5
• Maplestone, M., Flying Higher: History of the Essendon Football Club 1872–1996, Essendon Football Club, (Melbourne), 1996. ISBN 0-9591740-2-8

External links

• Noel Allanson's playing statistics from AFL Tables
• Noel Allanson at AustralianFootball.com
• Noel Allanson, at The VFA Project
• Noel Allanson at ESPNcricinfo
• CricketArchive: Noel Allanson

• 1925 births
• 2022 deaths
• Royal Australian Navy personnel of World War II
• Essendon Football Club players
• Essendon Football Club premiership players
• Australian cricketers
• Victoria cricketers
• Australian rules footballers from Melbourne
• Cricketers from Melbourne
• Royal Australian Navy sailors
• VFL/AFL premiership players
• People from Carlton North, Victoria
• Military personnel from Melbourne
• Essendon Football Club administrators