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1932 Brownlow Medal
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The 1932 Brownlow Medal was the ninth year the award was presented to the player adjudged the fairest and best player during the Victorian Football League (VFL) home and away season. Haydn Bunton of the Fitzroy Football Club won the medal for the second consecutive year by polling twenty-three votes during the 1932 VFL season. Leading votegetters References 1932 in Australian rules football 1932 Events January * January 4 – The British authorities in India arrest and intern Mahatma Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel. * January 9 – Sakuradamon Incident (1932), Sakuradamon Incident: Korean nationalist Lee Bong-chang fails in his effort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haydn Bunton Sr
Haydn William Bunton (5 July 1911 – 5 September 1955) was an Australian rules footballer who represented in the Victorian Football League (VFL), in the West Australian Football League (WAFL), and in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) during the 1930s and 1940s. Bunton is the only footballer to have won the Brownlow Medal and the Sandover Medal three times each. He is one of only four footballers to have won the Brownlow three times (the others being Ian Stewart, Dick Reynolds and Bob Skilton), and one of only five footballers to have won the Sandover at least three times (the others being Bill Walker (Australian footballer, born 1942), Bill Walker, who won it four times; and Barry Cable, Graham Farmer and Merv McIntosh, who each won it three times). Bunton is also the only player to have averaged one Brownlow vote per game over his career, averaging 1.04 votes per game. Like cricketer Don Bradman and the racehorse Phar Lap, Bunton was a sporting champio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan McAlpine
Ivan George McAlpine (19 July 1907 – 16 April 1992) was an Australian rules footballer who played for Footscray and Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL). McAlpine was wingman and regularly represented Victoria in interstate football. He won the inaugural Footscray Best and Fairest award in 1927 and won the award again in 1930 and 1932. For consecutive seasons in 1931 and 1932 he finished in the top 5 of the Brownlow Medal count. Having captained Footscray in 1933, his job at Menzies Creek made it difficult for him to attend training so he crossed over to Hawthorn which was closer. He had accepted the role of captain-coach. Despite retiring as a player in 1937 he stayed at the club for the following season as coach. After the war, McAlpine taught and captain-coached the local St James side near Benalla. In 1947 he transferred from Benalla to Alfredton. While coaching in Ballarat he led Sebastopol Sevastopol (; uk, Севасто́поль, Sevastópolʹ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Strang
Gordon "Cocker" Strang (10 February 1908 – 8 October 1951) was an Australian rules footballer who played in the Victorian Football League for the Richmond Football Club between 1931 and 1936. Strang first came under notice when he kicked 10 goals for Jindera FC in the Albury & Border Football Association, in 1927. He was the son of Bill Strang, who played for South Melbourne between 1904 and 1913 (and was South Melbourne's leading goal-kicker in 1913) After a year in Tasmania as captain-coach of North Launceston, he returned to Richmond, and played all of Richmond's 18 matches in the 1938 season, scoring 6 goals. He then transferred to Wodonga as captain-coach in 1939. He was the brother of Richmond premiership player Doug Strang and uncle of dual Richmond premiership player Geoff Strang and 1967 Tiger's premiership player John Perry. His (and Doug's) other brothers, Colin Strang and Allan Strang also played VFL football: for St Kilda (2 games, 1933), and Sout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilfred "Chicken" Smallhorn
Wilfred Arthur "Chicken" Smallhorn (25 February 1911 – 27 November 1988) was an Australian rules footballer who played in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He played 150 games for the Fitzroy Football Club between 1930 and 1940, winning the Brownlow Medal in 1933. Football career Standing at just 170 centimetres tall and weighing 62 kg, Chicken (so nicknamed because his mother could never catch him when he was young) was a deceptively quick winger who played 150 games (kicking 31 goals) for Fitzroy between 1930 and 1940. Recruited from Collingwood Technical School and East Brunswick Methodists, where he was coached by former Fitzroy player Arnold Beitzel, Smallhorn later became a long-time panellist on Harry Beitzel's TV show (Harry was Arnold's son). His early football was played as a rover, but a best-on-ground performance on a wing in his debut with Fitzroy had him permanently shifted to that position. He played his first game for Fitzroy, on 24 May 1930 (round ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reg Hickey
Reginald Joseph Hickey (27 March 1906 – 13 December 1973) was an Australian rules footballer who was a player, the captain, the captain-coach, and the non-playing coach for the Geelong Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) between 1928 and 1940 (player), and between 1949 and 1959 (non-player). In the 34 seasons from 1926 to 1959 he was involved in four Geelong VFL premierships: one as a player (1931), one as captain-coach ( 1937), and two as non-playing coach (1951, and 1952) – he was also the non-playing coach of a losing Grand Final team (1953), where an inaccurate Geelong (8.17 (65)) lost to Collingwood (11.11 (77)). Family The son of Martin Hickey (1873-1944), and Margaret Teresa Hickey (1877-1965), née Meaney, Reginald Joseph Hickey was born in Collingwood on 27 March 1906. He married Doreen Stella Markin (1916-1963) on 26 October 1938. He was the nephew of Fitzroy (VFA & VFL) footballer Pat Hickey, and Fitzroy (VFA) footballer and Fitzroy (VFL ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Phillips (footballer)
Frederick Rowden "Flops" Phillips (27 May 1905 – 21 April 1933) was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Family The son of Frederick John Edmonds Phillips (1859–1931), and Sylvia Amy Phillips (1870–1950), née Rowden, Frederick Rowden Phillips was born in Richmond, Victoria on 27 May 1905. He was born with a "hare lip".Spaul (2018). Education He was educated at Laing's Prahran College, and, later, at Scotch College, Melbourne, where he excelled at both cricket and football. Football ::Fred Phillips was a highly skilled and stylish footballer; and was said to be a strong overhead mark. Standing at 183 cm, Fred could hold down key positions in defence or attack. He had an added advantage, over many footballers of that era, because he could kick proficiently with both feet. ::In those early days of football, many players were "branded" as "one-sided" which meant that they turned the same way on each occasion when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Lewis (footballer)
John Francis Lewis (13 September 1901 – 3 July 1973) was an Australian rules footballer in the (then) Victorian Football League, playing for both North Melbourne and Melbourne clubs. Lewis, 191 cm and 99 kg, was a tough, hard ruckman who could carry the rucking load for the team during tough periods. In 1926, Lewis applied for a clearance to coach the Rutherglen Football Club in the Ovens and Murray Football League, but his clearance was refused by North Melbourne. In 1996 Lewis was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame. His brother, John Joseph "Bill" Lewis (1909–1949), played VFL football for North Melbourne. Lewis's great-grandson Daniel Venables played for the West Coast Eagles The West Coast Eagles are a professional Australian rules football club based in Perth, Western Australia. The club was founded in 1986 as one of two expansion teams in the Australian Football League (AFL), then known as the Victorian Football ... in the Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Percy Beames
Percy James Beames (27 July 1911 – 28 March 2004) was an Australian sportsman who played Australian rules football for the Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) as well as first-class cricket for Victoria in the Sheffield Shield. He later became one of Melbourne's most distinguished sports journalists, covering cricket and Australian rules football for ''The Age'' until 1976. When the Australian Football Hall of Fame was established in 1996, Beames was among the inaugural inductees, and was also named in the forward pocket when Melbourne's Team of the Century was named in June 2000. Early life Born to a large, poor family in Ballarat, Beames' lucky break came when he was awarded a scholarship to Ballarat College. He ended up captaining the school in Australian football, cricket, athletics and tennis. Cricket career Beames became a member of the South Melbourne Cricket Club for the 1929/1930 season. In 1931 he moved to the Melbourne Cricket Club. Beam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Dyer
John Raymond Dyer Sr. OAM (15 November 1913 – 23 August 2003), nicknamed Captain Blood, was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Richmond Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) between 1931 and 1949. One of the game's most prominent players, he was one of 12 inaugural "Legends" inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame. He later turned to coaching and work in the media as a popular broadcaster and journalist. Early life Dyer was born in Oakleigh, now a south-eastern suburb of Melbourne, but grew up in the small farming hamlet of Yarra Junction on the Yarra River, approximately east of the city. His parents, Ben and Nellie, were of Irish descent. The second of three children, Dyer had an elder brother, Vin, and a younger sister, Eileen. Dyer first played football at the Yarra Junction primary school. For his secondary education, Dyer was sent by his parents to St Ignatius in Richmond. He boarded in the city with an aunt. One of the br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stan Judkins
Stan Judkins (4 October 190717 October 1986) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Richmond Football Club in the Victorian Football League between 1928 and 1936. He became the first Richmond player to win the game's most prestigious award, the Brownlow Medal. Judkins played his junior football as a rover for Greensborough and then moved to Northcote in the VFA for the 1926 season. Invited to Richmond the following year, Judkins was forced to remain in the VFA for one more season due to clearance problems, caused by a dispute between the two competitions. Eventually, he made his way to Punt Road in 1928, and he immediately became a first team regular, aged 20. He arrived at the club at the start of a golden era, and starred in the Tigers' semifinal win over Carlton, but was quiet during the loss to Collingwood in the Grand Final three weeks later. A diminutive man at 166 cm and 61 kg, Judkins was a typical wing player of his era. At this time, teams ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Faul
William John Faul (8 June 1909 – 14 September 1974) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the South Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and for the Subiaco Football Club in the Western Australian National Football League (WANFL). Family The son of Albert Ernest Faul (1882–1963) and Mary Faul (–1946), née Roberts, he was born at Boulder, Western Australia, on 8 June 1909. He married Joan Mary Millie on 4 August 1934. Football A defender, Faul crossed from Subiaco to South Melbourne in 1932 and finished second in the Brownlow Medal. He won the club's Best and Fairest award in the same year. He was one of a number of South Melbourne players who were given immediate, long-term, secure, paid employment outside of football within the (137 store) grocery empire of the South Melbourne president, South Melbourne Lord Mayor, and Member of the Victorian Legislative Council, Archie Crofts. The collection of players recruited from in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1931 Brownlow Medal
The 1931 Brownlow Medal was the eighth year the award was presented to the player adjudged the best and fairest, fairest and best player during the Victorian Football League (1897–1989), Victorian Football League (VFL) home and away season. Haydn Bunton, Sr., Haydn Bunton of the Fitzroy Football Club won the medal by polling twenty-six votes during the 1931 VFL season. Following the previous season's three-way tie, and the confusion which followed, the conditions governing the medal were amended. From this season, the umpire would award votes to the best three players on the ground – three votes to the best player, two to the second best, and one to the third best. The player with the most overall votes would win; in the event of a tie, the player with the most three-vote games would win, then the player with the most two-vote games. A new provision under which a player who had been suspended during the season became ineligible for the award was also added. Leading votegett ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
