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/Hudson
As of 30 Sep 2020

Brian John Allsop (1935–1989) was an Australian professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1950s and 1960s who played in the New South Wales Rugby League. A wing, Allsop played for two Sydney clubs during his career, 80 matches for the Eastern Suburbs club in the years (1955–1959), and 74 for Manly-Warringah (1960–1964).[1]

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)
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