Allan Broadway
George Allan Broadway was an Australian rules footballer who played with Footscray and Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League.Career
Broadway, a forward, played for Yarraville in the Victorian Football Association before the war. He made 13 appearances for Footscray in the 1945 VFL season and kicked 12 goals. During the 1946 season he attempted to join Camberwell and St Kilda, before being cleared to Fitzroy.
In 1947 he joined Terang as playing coach. He coached Coleraine to a premiership in 1948, the first of his two years leading the club, then left to coach Stratford in 1950. After two years coaching Stratford, Broadway was cleared to another Gippsland club Maffra, as a player.
While a spectator at a cricket match in Stratford in the summer of 1952, Broadway was one of six people struck by lightning. He suffered burns but wasn't required to go to hospital.
