Career
He was a prolific goalkicker during his brief career, but he died suddenly during a preseason game at the age of 22. Allen played his entire career with the Sunshine Football Club in the VFA. The following year, aged 18, he played for the Seconds, and was again the VFA"s Division 2 leading goalkicker. He immediately established himself as one of the Association"s best full forwards, and he was the VFA"s Division 2 leading goalkicker in each of 1969 and 1970, kicking 99 and 80 goals respectively – to give him a total of four leading goalkicker awards, across different grades, in just five seasons.
In his senior career, he played 49 games and kicked 214 goals.
On Sunday 21 March, late in the first quarter of a pre-season practice match between Sunshine and Benalla in Benalla, Allen suddenly collapsed and died on the field He had crashed heavily to the ground on his side in a marking contest a few minutes earlier, but had returned to full forward and shown no ill-effects from the contest until his collapse.
He was 22 years old. Outside football, Allen worked in the Newport Railway Workshops.
