Allan Reval Explained

Allan Reval
Fullname:Allan R. V. Reval
Nickname:Bull
Birth Date:29 March 1913
Birth Place:South Australia
Position:Ruck rover
Guernsey:33, 21
Statsend:1945
Coachstatsend:1949
Repstatsend:1939
Years1:1932–1945
Games Goals1:187 (79)
Sooyears1:1934–1939
Sooteam1:South Australia
Soogames Goals1:13 (5)
Coachyears1:1940–1941
Coachclub1:Port Adelaide
Coachgames Wins1:37 (25–11–1)
Coachyears2:1949
Coachclub2:Glenelg
Coachgames Wins2:17 (8–9–0)
Careerhighlights:Club
  • 3× Port Adelaide premiership player (1936, 1937, 1939)
  • Port Adelaide best and fairest (1939)

Honours

  • Port Adelaide life member (1944)
  • SANFL life member
  • SANFL Hall of Fame inductee (2004)
  • Port Adelaide Hall of Fame 1998
  • Port Adelaide "Greatest Team of the Greatest Club" member 2000

Allan "Bull" Reval (29 March 1913 – 3 April 2005) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Port Adelaide Football Club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). He also coached Port Adelaide and fellow SANFL club Glenelg Football Club. He worked as a journalist for the Sunday Mail in Adelaide.[1]

Haydn Bunton Sr., triple Brownlow and Sandover medalist, said of Allan Reval that "Of the South Australians played against, two stand out. As far as I am concerned— 'Bull' Reval and Bob Quinn. I never saw Reval play anything but well against Victoria. He was a beauty."[2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: SA FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME: A R V(Bull) Reval. sanfl.com.au. 2016-03-19.
  2. News: Quinn and Reval among "really great players" . . 40 . 1,992 . South Australia . 5 August 1950 . 12 December 2016 . 2 (SUNDAY MAGAZINE) . National Library of Australia.