Grant Allford is a former Australian rules football

Australian rules football

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...

er who played for Richmond

Richmond Football Club

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 in the Victorian Football League

Australian Football League

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 (VFL) during the early 1970s.

Allford, a defender, came to the VFL from Tasmanian club Latrobe

Latrobe Football Club

The Latrobe Football Club is an Australian rules football club which competed in the NWFU between 1910 and 1986. The club has been a playing member of the NTFL since 1987. Latrobe were one of the most successful NWFU clubs and their tally of 12 premierships in a joint record, shared with Burnie and...

. He made his debut in round 15 and played every game for the rest of the year, including the Preliminary Final loss to St Kilda. Over the next two seasons, he added 20 more games but was unable to establish a place in the team.

Later in the decade, Allford played at Launceston

Launceston Football Club

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 and won the 1980 Hec Smith Memorial Medal as the best and fairest player in the Northern Tasmanian Football Association

Northern Tasmanian Football Association (1886 - 1986)

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. He was, in 2009, inducted into the Tasmanian Football Hall of Fame

Tasmanian Football Hall of Fame

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