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Australian rugby league footballer

Brian Allsop
Personal information
Full nameBrian John Allsop
Born(1935-09-09)9 September 1935
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Died17 January 1989(1989-01-17) (aged 53)
Dee Why, New South Wales, Australia
Playing information
PositionWing
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1955–59 Easts 80 59 39 1 257
1960–64 Manly Warringah 74 36 0 0 108
Total 154 95 39 1 365
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1955 New South Wales 1 1 0 0 3
Source: Whiticker/HudsonAs of 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 wing, 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.

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.

References

  1. "Statistics at rugbyleagueproject.org". rugbyleagueproject.org. 31 December 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
  • The Encyclopedia of Rugby League players (Alan Whiticker & Glen Hudson)
National Rugby League season top try scorers
National Rugby League players who have scored five or more tries in one game
§ = Scored eight tries in one game and six in another
* = Scored seven tries in one game
** = Scored six tries in a match twice and five tries once
Scored six or more tries in game
Scored five tries in game multiple times
Scored five tries in game once
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