Ken Rollason
Personal information
Full name	Kenneth Neville Cumstie Rollason
Date of birth	(1928-07-12)12 July 1928
Place of birth	Ballarat, Victoria
Date of death	27 July 2017(2017-07-27) (aged 89)
Place of death	Malvern, Victoria
Original team(s)	Old Melburnians Football Club
Height	193 cm (6 ft 4 in)
Weight	81 kg (179 lb)
Playing career1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1949–50	Melbourne	11 (13)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1950.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Kenneth Neville Cumstie Rollason (12 July 1928 – 27 July 2017) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).^[1]

The second son of Geelong player Neville Rollason (1895-1976) and Mary Agnes (Maisie) Cumstie (1891-1958), Kenneth Rollason was born on 12 July 1928 at Ballarat, Victoria.^[2]

He married Valma Janet Johnson (1931-) on 2 May 1956.^[3]

Educated at Melbourne Grammar School, and already a tall lad,^[4] he played his first match for the school's First XVIII at the age of 14.^[5]

In 1948, while playing for the Old Melburnians Football Club (OMFC) in the Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA)^{[broken anchor]}, he was selected in the Victorian team that played in Western Australia in the Third Amateur Football Carnival. Playing at full-back, he won the Grosvenor Medal, awarded to the Carnival's best and fairest player.^[6][7]

Although he was originally "residentially bound to St Kilda",^[8] he was cleared to Melbourne from Old Melburnians on 13 April 1949,^[9] having resided in Melbourne's allotted territory for three years.^[10]

He played in 11 senior games for Melbourne (kicking 13 goals) over two seasons (1949 and 1950).^{[11][12][13][14]}

He left Melbourne halfway through the 1950 season when he made a business trip to England.^[15][16]

He returned to Old Melburnians in 1953,^[17] and was still playing for them in 1957.^[18][19] He was selected at full-back in the Old Melburnians Football Club's "Team of the Century".^[20]

He died at the Frances Xavier Cabrini Hospital in Malvern, Victoria on 27 July 2017.^[21]

• Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2009). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (8th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. ISBN 978-1-921496-00-4.
• Photograph, The Age, (Thursday, 18 August 1949), p.5.

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