Alan McCrory

Allison Razey 'Alan' McCrory (26 February 1918 – 24 April 1985[1]) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Richmond Football Club and South Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[2]

Alan McCrory
Personal information
Full name Allison Razey McCrory
Date of birth (1918-02-26)26 February 1918
Place of birth Derry, Ireland
Date of death 24 April 1985(1985-04-24) (aged 67)
Original team(s) Carnegie
Height 178 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Weight 73 kg (161 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1938 Richmond 5 (2)
1941, 1943 South Melbourne 4 (2)
Total 9 (4)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1943.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

A key position player,[3] McCrory also played for Oakleigh Football Club in the Victorian Football Association in 1940.[3] He joined the Royal Australian Air Force towards the end of World War II,[4] and later moved to Queensland where he worked as an airport fire officer until his retirement in 1974.

Notes
  1. "Resting Place Allambe Memorial Park Allison Razey (Alan) Mccrory".
  2. Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 570. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  3. "Too many passengers carried by South", The Record, 5 July 1941, p. 3.
  4. "A. R. McCrory RAAF Service Record".
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gollark: Hmm, perhaps if you make it use the most recent likely-true-but-hard-to-prove maths problem somehow...
gollark: The twin prime conjecture, say?
gollark: For "probably TC but very hard to prove", maybe tie it to unsolved maths problems?
gollark: I should append that to the potatOS terms.
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