Alan Stevens (footballer)
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Alan Keith Stevens (5 August 1923 – 2 November 2010) was an
Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified ...
er who played with St Kilda in the
Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football competition in Australia operated by the Australian Football League (AFL) as a second-tier, regional, semi-professional competition. It includes teams from clubs based in east ...
(VFL). He also had a noted career in the Canberra Australian National Football League, with Ainslie, Eastlake- Manuka and Eastlake.


Career


Early career during the war

Stevens, a defender, spent his first two years of senior football with Canberra club Ainslie. He won Ainslie's
best and fairest In Australian sport, the best and fairest award recognises the player(s) adjudged to have had the best performance in a game or over a season for a given sporting club or competition. The awards are sometimes dependent on not receiving a suspensi ...
award and finished third in voting for the Mulrooney Medal in 1941, his second season. From 1942 to 1944, Stevens played for the merged Eastlake- Manuka combination. The merger ended in 1945 and Stevens played for Eastlake that season. He was named amongst Eastlake's best players in their one-point win over Navy in the 1945 grand final.


New captain of Ainslie

Stevens returned to Ainslie in 1946, as club captain. He had a triumphant return, ending the season with a premiership, Mulrooney Medal and another Ainslie best and fairest. The following year he was given the additional responsibility of being playing coach and steered Ainslie to another premiership. Stevens, who captained Canberra at the 1947 Hobart Carnival, also won a third club best and fairest award.


Three seasons with St Kilda

Stevens played for St Kilda from 1948 to 1950, during which time he amassed 22 league appearances. While in Victoria he was a state representative, in 1948.


Final years at Ainslie

Stevens finished his career back at Ainslie, where he was playing coach for two more seasons, after moving back to Canberra late in 1951. He led Ainslie to another premiership in 1952, when they were undefeated all year.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Stevens, Alan 1923 births Australian rules footballers from the Australian Capital Territory St Kilda Football Club players Ainslie Football Club players Eastlake Football Club players Manuka Football Club players 2010 deaths 20th-century Australian sportsmen