Career
Aplin umpired 291 SANFL matches, including 10 Grand Finals. He was the regular "independent" umpire in the Western Australia versus Victoria matches. Aplin was the SANFL umpires" coach between 1955 and 1957 and umpired in the South Australian Amateur Football League (SAAFL).
After retiring as an umpire, he was a football commentator on Adelaide radio for 18 years, and also a television football panellist.
Aplin was inducted in the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 1996.
