Lionel Ollington

Lionel Ollington
Personal information
Full name Lionel Ollington
Date of birth (1927-12-19)19 December 1927
Date of death 23 May 2014(2014-05-23) (aged 86)
Original team(s) Montague Rovers
Height 173 cm (5 ft 8 in)
Weight 64 kg (141 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1953 Footscray 5 (3)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1953.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Lionel Ollington (19 December 1927 – 23 May 2014) was a former Australian rules footballer who played with Footscray in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1][2] He was later known as an organizer and promoter of the traditional Australian gambling game Two-up. He was operating outside the law for two decades but eventually permitted to hold legal games annually on Anzac Day.

Notes

  1. ↑ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 678. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  2. ↑ "THE odds have finally beaten illegal two-up king Lionel "Nappy" Ollington, who died on Friday after a long battle with cancer". The Herald Sun. 23 May 2014. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
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