Allan Strang
Personal information
Full name Robert Allan Strang
Date of birth (1921-10-11)11 October 1921
Place of birth Albury, New South Wales
Date of death 4 February 1996(1996-02-04) (aged 74)
Place of death Albury, New South Wales
Original team(s) Albury
Height 185 cm (6 ft 1 in)
Weight 86 kg (190 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1947–1948 South Melbourne 15 (17)
1949 Williamstown (VFA) 21 (10)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1948.
Career highlights
  • 1949 VFA Premiership
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Robert Allan Strang (11 October 1921 – 4 February 1996) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the South Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1][2]

He was the brother of Richmond premiership players Doug & Gordon Strang and St Kilda footballer Colin Strang,

Strang who was a marking forward was recruited after talent scouts saw him in a practice match between Albury and the Army.[3] He spent two years playing for St George in Sydney before moving to Melbourne to play for the same team his father did between 1904 and 1913.[4] In 1949, he was cleared to play with Williamstown.[5] Strang accepted a contract to captain coach the Wagga Tigers in 1950.[6]

He was the uncle of dual Richmond premiership player Geoff Strang, and the uncle of Richmond premiership player John Perry.

Notes

  1. ↑ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 855. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  2. ↑ Note that this Allan Strang (Allan with "ll") is a different individual from the Alan Leslie Strang (Alan with "l") who played Seconds Football for Melbourne: see Deaths: Strang, The Argus, (Saturday, 25 July 1942), p.2, Service Casualties, The Argus, (Friday, 24 July 1942), p.3., and "Alan Strang", at Demonwiki.
  3. ↑ "Another Strang in South's Colors?". Record. 23 September 1944.
  4. ↑ "Former N.s.w. Rules Stars". Sydney Morning Herald. 1948.
  5. ↑ "South Player at Williamstown". Argus. 1949.
  6. ↑ "Wagga 'Rules Club's Good 1950 Season". Daily Advertiser. 7 March 1951.
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