title: Neil Allison (Australian footballer)
text: # Neil Allison (Australian footballer)
  
  Neil James Allison (11 October 1912 – 21 October 1962) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
  
  ## Family
  
  The son of James Neil Allison (1890–1913), and Elsie Grace Allison, née Coleman, Neil James Allison was born in Carlton, Victoria on 11 October 1912. He married Olive "Bub" Burnett in 1940. They had one son, Patrick.
  
  ## Football
  
  He played with Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL). In 1939 he applied for a clearance to Coburg Football Club in the VFA.
  
  ## Military service
  
  He enlisted in the Second AIF in June 1940.
  
  ## Death
  
  He died as a result of the injuries sustained in an accident on 21 October 1962, when a car in which he was a passenger struck a tree on the Geelong Road, in West Footscray.
  
  