Allan Hopkins

Allan Hopkins
Personal information
Full nameAllan Arthur Hopkins
Date of birth24 May 1904
Place of birthFootscray, Victoria
Date of death2 July 2001 (aged 97)
Place of deathYarrawonga, Victoria
Original teamFootscray (VFA)
Height/Weight175 cm / 75 kg
Playing career1
YearsClubGames (Goals)
1925–1934Footscray151 (205)
Coaching career
YearsClubGames (W–L–D)
1930Footscray18 (4-14-0)
1 Playing statistics correct to end of 1934 season.
Career highlights
  • Footscray captain 1926, 1929
  • Footscray best and fairest 1931
  • Footscray leading goalkicker 1925, 1926
  • Victorian representative 17 matches

Allan Hopkins (24 May 1904 – 2 July 2001) was an Australian rules footballer in the (then) Victorian Football League. He started off his career with Footscray Football Club 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 (VFA).

A brilliant centreman, he was awarded the Brownlow Medal retrospectively in 1989 for the 1930 season while playing with the Footscray Bulldogs, and won the Bulldogs' best and fairest in 1931.

He went on to win the VFA premiership with Yarraville Football Club in 1935 as captain-coach.

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