Noel Allanson

{{Short description|Australian rules footballer and cricketer (1925–2022)}}

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| birth_name = Noel Laurence Allanson

| birth_date = {{birth date|1925|12|25|df=y}}

| birth_place = North Carlton, Victoria

| death_date = {{death date and age|2022|02|07|1925|12|25|df=y}}

| death_place = East Malvern, Victoria

| nationality = Australian

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| originalteam = North Essendon

| height = 179 cm

| weight = 76 kg

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| statsend = 1951

| years1 = 1947–1951

| club1 = Essendon (VFL)

| games_goals1 = 57 (1)

| years2 = 1951–1952

| club2 = Williamstone (VFA)

| games_goals2 = 28 (1)

| games_goalstotal = 82 (2)

| careerhighlights = • Essendon First XVIII Grand-Final Team 1947
• Essendon First XVIII Premiership Team 1950

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| club1 = Victoria

| year1 = 1956–57

| type1 = First class

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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).Holmesby & Main (2014), p165.

Family

The son of Laurence Alexander Allanson (1898-1987), and Eva Charlotte Allanson (1900-1975), née Syer,[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2034759 Marriages: Allanson—Syer, The Argus, (Saturday, 31 January 1925), p.15.] Noel Laurence Allanson was born at North Carlton, Victoria on Christmas Day (25 December) 1925.[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3730796 Births: Allanson, The Argus, (Saturday, 23 January 1926), p.17.]

He married Betty Grace Walton on 13 March 1951 at Essendon North, Victoria.[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article206385115 Pearl Tiara, (also photograph), The Age, (Wednesday, 14 March 1951), p.5.]

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,Nominal Roll. and was present in Tokyo Bay in 1945 when the Japanese surrender was signed aboard the United States Navy battleship {{USS|Missouri|BB-63|6}}.Cullen (2015), p.237.

Football

=Essendon (VFL)=

Allanson was an Essendon local and at the end of his debut season played in the 1947 VFL Grand Final.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article22510650 |title=CARLTON WIN PREMIERSHIP IN LAST FEW SECONDS |newspaper=The Argus |issue=31,537 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=29 September 1947 |page=18}} 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.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71776204 |title=ALLANSON GETS HIS BIG CHANCE |newspaper=The Argus |location=Victoria, Australia |date=14 January 1957 |page=15}}

::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.[http://premier.cricketvictoria.com.au/pageitem.aspx?id=185015&id2=1&eID=3&entityID=3 Rice, Will, "Vale Noel Allinson (sic) and Norma Gardner (nee Wilson)", premier.cricketvictoria.com.au, Wednesday, 9 February 2022.]

Club official

Allanson was vice-president of Essendon Football Club in 1976 and 1977 and treasurer from 1978 to early 1991.Maplestone (1996), p.417. He was inducted into the Club's Hall of Fame in 2015.{{cite web |date=29 June 2015|title=Hall of Fame: Noel Allanson |url=https://www.essendonfc.com.au/news/20504/hall-of-fame-noel-allanson |website=essendonfc.com.au |accessdate=17 June 2020}}

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.{{cite web |url=https://www.essendonfc.com.au/news/1056322/vale-noel-allanson |title=Vale Noel Allanson |website=essendonfc.com.au |date=7 February 2022 |access-date=7 February 2022}}

Notes

References

[https://nominal-rolls.dva.gov.au/veteran?id=1084091&c=WW2 World War Two Nominal Roll: Able Seaman Noel Lawrence Allanson (PM7211), Department of Veterans' Affairs]
[https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/NAAMedia/ViewPDF.aspx?B=4259863&D=D World War Two Service Record: Able Seaman Noel Lawrence Allanson (PM7211), National Archives of Australia]
[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article22833131 League Teams of 1950 — Essendon, The Argus, (Saturday, 3 June 1950), p.1.]
{{cite book |author=Cullen, Barbara | title=Harder than Football: League Players at War | year=2015 |publication-date=2015 |location=Richmond, Victoria |publisher=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

{{AFL Tables|ref=N/Noel_Allanson.html}}
{{AustralianFootball|ref=noel%2Ballanson/7534}}
[http://www.thevfaproject.org/pages/Players/Allanson,_Noel.php Noel Allanson, at The VFA Project]
{{cricinfo|ref=ci/content/player/4019.html}}
[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/15/15676/15676.html CricketArchive: Noel Allanson]

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Category:Royal Australian Navy personnel of World War II

Category:Essendon Football Club players

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Category:VFL/AFL premiership players

Category:People from Carlton North, Victoria