Allan Crabb, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetAllan Crabb
Australian rules footballer
Date of Birth: 24-May-1923
Place of Birth: Brighton, South Australia, Australia
Date of Death: 11-Feb-1982
Profession: Australian rules footballer
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Allan Crabb
- Allan John "Buster" Crabb (24 May 1923 – 11 February 1982) was an Australian rules footballer best known for his playing career with South Australian National Football League (SANFL) club Glenelg in the 1940s and 1950s. Crabb was a left-foot ruckman who debuted with the war-time combined West Adelaide-Glenelg side in 1942, and played out his career from 1945-1956 with Glenelg.
- In the process he became one of the most popular and respected footballers in the State [1]. Jeff Pash, a contemporary and later a sports writer, noted Crabb's outwardly placid nature, yet he was well able to look after himself in the roughhouse world of the ruck.
- Pash described Crabb's rucking as "both the deft plamer and the solid knocker" and felt that he had "some adventurous quality about him, too - whimsical almost - that leads him to mark one-handed or otherwise do the dangerouse thing, but not at all in any spirit of ostentation".Crabb represented South Australia against interstate teams for many years; usually in ruck partnership with Norwood's John Marriott.
- Crabb was runner-up in the Magarey Medal - the highest individual award in the League for the "fairest and most brilliant" player - in both 1949 (on a countback) and 1950.
- The SANFL in 1998 retrospectively awarded Medals to all players who had lost on countbacks (i.e.
- had tied for the award but had less first preference votes), thus giving Crabb his reward fifty years later.
- Crabb also won Glenelg's 1949 best and fairest award, and captained the club for three seasons.
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