Allan Broadway Explained

Allan Broadway
Fullname:George Allan Broadway[1]
Birth Date:4 December 1921
Birth Place:Footscray, Victoria
Originalteam:Yarraville
Height:183 cm
Weight:77 kg
Statsend:1946
Years1:1945–1946
Club1:Footscray
Games Goals1:16 (13)
Years2:1946
Club2:Fitzroy
Games Goals2:3 (2)
Games Goalstotal:19 (15)

George Allan Broadway (4 December 1921 – 27 July 1997)[2] was an Australian rules footballer who played with Footscray and Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[3]

Career

Broadway, a forward, played for Yarraville in the Victorian Football Association before the Second World War.[4] During the war, he served as a private in the Australian Army Service Corps. He made 13 appearances for Footscray in the 1945 VFL season and kicked 12 goals. During the 1946 season he attempted to join Camberwell and St Kilda, before being cleared to Fitzroy.[5] [6]

In 1947 he joined Terang as playing coach.[7] He coached Coleraine to a premiership in 1948, the first of his two years leading the club, then left to coach Stratford in 1950.[8] [9] After two years coaching Stratford, Broadway was cleared to another Gippsland club Maffra, as a player.[10]

While a spectator at a cricket match in Stratford in the summer of 1952, Broadway was one of six people struck by lightning.[11] He suffered burns but was not required to go to hospital.[11]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: World War Two Nominal Roll . Government of Australia . 7 January 2015.
  2. Web site: Allan Broadway – Player Bio. Australian Football. 7 January 2015.
  3. Book: Holmesby, Russell. Main. Jim. The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. BAS Publishing. 2007. 9781920910785.
  4. News: Many New Players in VFL Teams. . . Melbourne . 20 April 1945 . 7 January 2015 . 11 . National Library of Australia.
  5. News: League Clubs Train Lightly. . The Argus. Melbourne . 28 June 1946 . 9 January 2015 . 16 . National Library of Australia.
  6. News: Gossip in Football and Other Sports. . The Argus. Melbourne . 3 July 1946 . 9 January 2015 . 8 . National Library of Australia.
  7. News: Allan Broadway To Coach Terang. . . Melbourne . 29 January 1947 . 9 January 2015 . 28 . National Library of Australia.
  8. News: Items of Interest. . The Camperdown Chronicle. Victoria . 11 October 1948 . 9 January 2015 . 2 . National Library of Australia.
  9. News: Football. . The Argus. Melbourne . 22 December 1949 . 9 January 2015 . 19 . National Library of Australia.
  10. News: Sale Selected To Defeat Bairnsdale. . Gippsland Times. Victoria . 1 May 1952 . 9 January 2015 . 7 . National Library of Australia.
  11. News: Lightning Bolt Strikes 6 at Cricket Match. . . Melbourne . 10 November 1952 . 9 January 2015 . 1 . National Library of Australia.