Raymond Arthur Allsopp (20 December 1933 – 20 October 2021) 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 ...

player who played for the

Richmond Football Club The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed the Tigers, is an Australian rules football team playing in the Australian Football League (AFL). Between its inception in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond in 1885 and 1907, the club competed in the Victo ...

in the

Victorian Football League 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 ...

(VFL) from 1955 to 1959. Allsopp played as a rover and was known for reading the ball well off packs. Allsopp represented

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in 1957. The 1957 season was Allsopp's best in his VFL career—he kicked a career-high 35 goals and polled six

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 ...

votes. He finished his career having played 54 games and having kicked 69 goals. He went on to become the first full-time administrator in the VFL and was charged with developing Vickick, a junior football program, now known as

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. The Victorian Australian Football Coaches Association (AFCA) annually recognises his contribution to junior football through the ''Ray Allsopp Auskick Coach of the Year'' award. He was given an AFL Life Membership for administration in 2010 and the

Medal of the Order of Australia The Order of Australia is an honour that recognises Australian citizens and other persons for outstanding achievement and service. It was established on 14 February 1975 by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, on the advice of the Australian Gove ...

in 2017 for his service to sport.

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1933 births 2021 deaths Richmond Football Club players University Blacks Football Club players Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia) Australian footballers at the 1956 Summer Olympics Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia {{AFL-bio-1930s-stub

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