• Entry type: Person
  • Entry ID: AWE2712

Allpress, Val

  • Occupation Australian football club administrator, Sports administrator

Summary

Val Allpress was appointed secretary of the University of Melbourne Australian football club, University Blues, in 1983. Her husband was an umpire and in 1982, after coming home from umpiring a grand final in which the Blues had been beaten again, she remarked that ‘What they need is a good woman to organise them’. Shortly afterwards, she was asked to accept the job as secretary.

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