Noel Allanson
Noel Laurence Allanson is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League.
Prior to his sporting career, Allanson served in the Royal Australian Navy during the later stages of World War II and was present in Tokyo Bay in 1945 when the Japanese surrender was signed aboard the United States Navy battleship USS Missouri.
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.
Allanson was vice-president of Essendon Football Club in 1976 and 1977 and treasurer from 1978 to early 1991. He was inducted into the club's Hall of Fame in 2015.
In 1957 he played a first-class cricket match for Victoria against Tasmania and made 24 in his only innings.
