Allan Hopkins (24 May 1904 – 2 July 2001) was an

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...

er in the (then)

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Football

He started off his career with

Footscray Football Club The Western Bulldogs are a professional Australian rules football team that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's premier competition. Founded in 1877 as the Footscray Football Club, and based in West Footscray in the ...

before they joined the Victorian Football League (VFL) in 1925. He had played in the club's 1923 and 1924 premiership sides in the

Victorian Football Association The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). It ...

(VFA). A brilliant centreman, he was awarded the

Brownlow Medal The Charles Brownlow Trophy, better known as the Brownlow Medal (and informally as "Charlie"), is awarded to the " best and fairest" player in the Australian Football League (AFL) during the home-and-away season, as determined by votes cast by ...

retrospectively in 1989 for the 1930 season while playing with the Footscray Bulldogs, and won the Bulldogs'

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in 1931. He went on to win the VFA premiership with

Yarraville Football Club Yarraville Football Club was an Australian rules football club founded in 1903 and played in the VJFA until 1927. In 1928, the club joined the Victorian Football Association where it played until 1984 when the club went into recess. In 1996 ...

in 1935 as captain-coach.

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AFL Hall of Fame
1904 births 2001 deaths Australian rules footballers from Melbourne Australian Rules footballers: place kick exponents Australian Football Hall of Fame inductees Brownlow Medal winners Western Bulldogs players Western Bulldogs coaches Yarraville Football Club players Yarraville Football Club coaches Footscray Football Club (VFA) players Charles Sutton Medal winners Place of birth missing People from Footscray, Victoria {{AFL-bio-1904-stub