Reg Allen

Infobox Football biography
playername = Reg Allen
fullname = Arthur Reginald Allen
dateofbirth = birth date|1919|5|3|df=y
cityofbirth = Marylebone
countryofbirth = England
dateofdeath = death date and age|1976|4|3|1919|5|3|df=y
cityofdeath = Ealing
countryofdeath = England
currentclub =
position = Goalkeeper
years = 1938–1950
1950–1955
clubs = Queens Park Rangers
Manchester United
caps(goals) = 183 (0)
00? (0)

Arthur Reginald Allen (born May 3 1919 in Marylebone, London, died April 3 1976) was a goalkeeper with Queens Park Rangers and Manchester United in the 1930s, 40s and 50s.

Reg made his QPR debut against Newport County in December 1938 and was known as one of the best goalkeepers of his era. Reg went on to play 183 league games for QPR, his career impacted by the war years where he was a POW in North Africa. He was a member of the 1948 QPR that won the Division Three (South) championship.

He was transferred to Manchester United in 1950 for a then world-record fee for a goalkeeper, but had retired from football within five years.

He died on 3 April 1976, one month before what would have been his 57th birthday.

Honours

As a player

Queens Park Rangers
*Division Three (South) Title winner: 1947–48