Brian Allsop

{{Short description|Australian rugby league footballer}}

{{Use Australian English|date=July 2013}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}}

{{Infobox rugby league biography

|name = Brian Allsop

|fullname = Brian John Allsop

|birth_date = {{birth date|1935|09|09|df=y}}

|birth_place = Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

|death_date = {{death date and age|1989|01|17|1935|09|09|df=y}}

|death_place = Dee Why, New South Wales, Australia

|position = {{rlp|WG}}

|club1 = Easts

|year1start = 1955

|year1end = 59

|appearances1 = 80

|tries1 = 59

|goals1 = 39

|fieldgoals1 = 1

|points1 = 257

|club2 = Manly Warringah

|year2start = 1960

|year2end = 64

|appearances2 = 74

|tries2 = 36

|goals2 = 0

|fieldgoals2 = 0

|points2 = 108

|teamA = New South Wales

|yearAstart = 1955

|yearAend =

|appearancesA = 1

|triesA = 1

|goalsA = 0

|fieldgoalsA = 0

|pointsA = 3

|source = Whiticker/Hudson

|updated = 30 Sep 2020

}}

Brian John Allsop (1935–1989) was an Australian professional rugby league footballer. He played in the 1950s and 1960s for the New South Wales Rugby League.

A {{rlp|wg}}, Allsop played for two Sydney clubs during his career, with 80 matches for the Eastern Suburbs club in the years 1955–1959, and 74 for Manly-Warringah from 1960–1964.{{cite web|url=http://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/players/brian-allsop/summary.html|title=Statistics at rugbyleagueproject.org|publisher=rugbyleagueproject.org|date=31 December 2017|accessdate=1 January 2018}}

Scores in his play

An Eastern Suburbs junior, Allsop made it into the first grade side in 1955. In that season he was the NSWRFL, leading try-scorer with 18 tries scored in his 17 matches that year. In one match that year against the Parramatta Eels, he scored 5 tries. Allsop was a representative of Sydney and NSW. The speedy winger scored a total of 59 tries for Easts before departing for Manly, where he scored a further 36 in his time there. He retired at the end of the 1964 season.

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