Noel Allanson Australian rules football player
Noel Laurence Allanson (born 25 December 1925) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League (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.In 1957 he played a first-class cricket match for Victoria against Tasmania and made 24 in his only innings.