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1934 Brownlow Medal
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The 1934 Brownlow Medal was the 11th year the award was presented to the player adjudged the fairest and best player during the Victorian Football League (VFL) home-and-away season. Dick Reynolds of the Essendon Football Club won the medal by polling nineteen votes during the 1934 VFL season. Leading vote-getters References 1934 in Australian rules football 1934 Events January–February * January 1 – The International Telecommunication Union, a specialist agency of the League of Nations, is established. * January 15 – The 8.0 1934 Nepal–Bihar earthquake, Nepal–Bihar earthquake strik ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Reynolds
Richard Sylvannus Reynolds (20 June 1915 – 2 September 2002) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Essendon Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Reynolds is one of four footballers to have won three Brownlow Medals, the others being Haydn Bunton Sr., Bob Skilton and Ian Stewart. Revered by Essendon supporters, he was often referred to simply as "King Richard". Family The son of William Meader Reynolds (1886—1940) and Mary James Reynolds, née Thompson (1885—1941), and one of seven children, Richard Sylvannus Reynolds was born on 20 June 1915. He died on 2 September 2002. He was the brother of Tom Reynolds, the cousin of Richmond champion player and coach Max Oppy, and the grandfather of Joel Reynolds. Early life and career Reynolds grew up supporting and sold lollies outside Princes Park on match days. When Reynolds won his first Brownlow Medal in 1934, champion Haydn Bunton Sr., whom Reynolds had narrowly beaten to win the awar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Martin (Australian Footballer)
John Raymond Martin (18 November 1909 – 28 July 1988) was an Australian rules footballer who played in the VFL in 1930 and then from 1932 to 1940 for the Richmond Football Club. References * Hogan P: ''The Tigers Of Old'', Richmond FC, Melbourne 1996 External links * * Richmond Football Club players Richmond Football Club premiership players Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Daylesford Football Club players 1909 births 1988 deaths VFL/AFL premiership players {{AFL-bio-1909-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Watson (footballer)
Colin Campbell Watson (12 October 1900 – 20 October 1970) was an Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League. Watson was best on ground for South Warrnambool in the 1918 Warrnambool District Football Association grand final and was enticed down to Melbourne in 1919 where he played seven consecutive games from rounds three to nine with VFA side Port Melbourne, when a bout of influenza at the height of the 1919 Influenza pandemic forced him home to Warrnambool, where he finished off the season with South Warrnambool. Roy Cazaly went down to coach South Warrnambool during the 1919, 1920 and 1921 finals series and coached Colin Watson and immediately saw an immensely talented footballer, who was then invited to play with St. Kilda in 1920. He played four games for St Kilda in 1920 (rounds 1, 3, 5 & 7) before deciding to stay at home in Warrnambool and in 1921 he played in South Warrnambool's Western District Football Association premiership, coached by Roy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Forbes
Keith MacKenzie Forbes (28 May 1906 – 7 September 1996) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Coburg in the Victorian Football Association (VFA), and for Essendon, North Melbourne (as captain-coach), and Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Family The son of Donald Forbes, and Sarah Jane Forbes, née MacPhail, Keith MacKenzie Forbes was born on 28 May 1906. He married Dorothy Viola Brown on 25 November 1935. Football A small goalkicking rover, he stood at 171 cm. Coburg (VFA) Forbes played a total of 30 games for Coburg over three seasons (1926–1928), and was part of the 1927 premiership team. Essendon (VFL) Forbes transferred to Essendon without a clearance from Coburg, having played for Coburg for the first five matches in the VFA's 1928 season, as did another two of his (1927 Grand Final winning) Coburg team-mates, Aub Charleston, and Ernie Martin. He was twice runner-up in the Brownlow Medal; in 1930 (joint), and in 1935. He twi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Davis (Australian Footballer)
Jack Davis (16 July 1908 – 11 August 1991) was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the VFL during the 1930s. A key position defender, Davis finished in the top 10 of the Brownlow Medal count four times, including third placing in 1933 and equal fifth in 1935. He was a regular Victorian interstate representative and won St Kilda's best and fairest award in the 1934, 1935 and 1937 seasons. In 1939 he went to Brighton in the Victorian Football Association The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). It ... as playing coach, and in 1940, his final season, he won the Recorder Cup and V. F. A. Medal as best and fairest in the Association. References External links * Trevor Barker Award winners 1908 births Australian rules footballers from Victori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Ware
Norman Ware (5 March 1911 – 26 August 2003) was an Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League (1897–1989), Victorian Football League (VFL). A scrupulously fair, clever and unusually pacy ruckman for Footscray Football Club, Footscray, Ware is the only captain-coach to have won the Brownlow Medal, and is likely to remain so indefinitely, as it would be almost impossible for a captain of an AFL team to act as a coach today, and even so, playing coaches are prohibited under salary cap regulations (instituted in 1987) in order to prevent wealthier clubs from circumventing the restrictions of the salary cap and salary floor. He was recruited from Sale Football Club, Sale. His brother Wally Ware, Wally played for Hawthorn Football Club, Hawthorn. In 2001 Ware was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame. Career highlights * Brownlow Medal: 1941 * Footscray Best and Fairest: 1934, 1937, 1938, 1940, 1941, 1942 * Footscray captain: 1940 * Footscray Te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Pratt
Harold Robert Pratt Sr. (31 August 1912 – 6 January 2001) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the South Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and the Coburg Football Club in the Victorian Football Association (VFA). Considered "arguably the best full-forward in the history of Australian rules", Pratt was one of the inaugural Legends inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 1996. Known for spectacular diving and high-flying marks, Pratt topped South Melbourne's goalkicking for the first time in 1932 with 71 goals and for the next three seasons passed 100 goals. His total of 150 goals in 1934 was a VFL/AFL record which stood alone until Peter Hudson equalled it in 1971. Pratt also kicked ten or more goals in a game eight times, including 15 goals in a single game. His son, Bob Pratt Jr., also played for South Melbourne. Early life The son of Harold Robert Pratt and Olive Pratt (née Fosbrook), Pratt was born in the inner- ... [...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] |
Keith Shea
Keith Sylvester Shea (10 August 1914 – 27 February 1951) was an Australian rules footballer who played at high levels in both Victoria and Western Australia. His senior VFL playing career spanned from 1932 to 1945, although it was interrupted by the war and he continued on playing country football until 1950. Family The son of Stephen Sylvester Shea (1890-1958), and Florence Kathleen Shea (1891-1958), née Dowling, Keith Sylvester Shea was born at Bacchus Marsh, Victoria on 10 August 1914. He married Linda Jessie Elin Tuke (1914-1977) on 25 November 1940. Football Shea was a half forward and played with from 1932 to 1937. He polled well in the Brownlow Medal, the closest he came to winning was in 1934 where he fell 2 votes short with an equal 3rd placing. Shea finished 3rd again the following season in 1935 and equal fourth in 1937. He represented Victoria on 10 occasions during his time at Carlton. It was playing for Victoria in the 1937 Perth Carnival where he caught ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1933 Brownlow Medal
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The 1933 Brownlow Medal was the tenth year the award was presented to the player adjudged the fairest and best player during the Victorian Football League (VFL) home and away season. Wilfred Smallhorn of the Fitzroy Football Club won the medal by polling eighteen votes during the 1933 VFL season. Leading votegetters References 1933 in Australian rules football 1933 Events January * January 11 – Sir Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand. * January 17 – The United States Congress votes in favour of Philippines independence, against the wis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Regan
John Vincent Regan (12 September 1912 – 11 August 1988) was an Australian rules footballer who represented Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1930s and 1940s. Playing career Recruited from Northcote, Regan struggled in his first few seasons and was tried in a variety of positions before he established himself at full-back. Taking on and matching full-forwards like South Melbourne's Bob Pratt (whom Regan regarded as his most difficult opponent), Carlton's Harry Vallence, Richmond's Jack Titus and St Kilda's Bill Mohr, Regan earned his title as the "Prince of Full-backs". He was a magnificent mark and a superb kick. Archival footage shows him using the now defunct drop kick for his kick-ins. In slow motion they demonstrate his perfect balance and timing. Regan was among the best players in the Magpies' 1935 and 1936 premiership victories, both against South Melbourne. In May 1938, during a match against Carlton, Regan fell heavily and suffered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
