Roy Allen was an Australian rules football

Australian rules football

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er who played for Collingwood

Collingwood Football Club

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 in the Victorian Football League

Australian Football League

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 (VFL).

Allen made just two senior appearances with Collingwood, a win over Melbourne at the MCG and a loss to South Melbourne at Lake Oval.

He later returned to the league as a goal umpire and also officiated briefly as a boundary and field umpire. One of just a few VFL footballers to have lived to 100, Allen goal umpired both the 1950 and 1953 VFL Grand Final

1953 VFL Grand Final

The 1953 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Geelong Football Club and Collingwood Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 27 September 1953. It was the 57th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers...

s, 208 matches in total. The most notable of those came in 1951 when he controversially reported Essendon full-forward John Coleman and caused him to miss the Grand Final.