The Jack Dyer Medal is an

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award given each season to the player or players adjudged

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for the

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. The award is now named in honour of

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 ga ...

, a champion ruckman who won the award five times from 1937 to 1946. He was one of the inaugural "Legends" inducted into the

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in 1996. Other multiple winners have been Kevin Bartlett (five times);

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and dual

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list Roy Wright (four times each);

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list Bill Morris, and

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(three times each).

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, and most recently

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have all won the award twice. Bill Morris, Roy Wright, Ian Stewart,

and

all won the

in the same years that they won their

s at

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, while

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list in 1930, never won the club's award. The voting system as of the

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, consists of each player receiving a ranking from zero to five after each match by the coaching panel.

Recipients

Multiple winners

Removed winners

Following a nineteen-year investigation undertaken by members of the Richmond Historical Committee, it was announced in November 2019 that their research into the history of the award had discovered that 18 of the 22 awards between 1911 and 1936 (none had been listed in 1912, 1915, and 1930-1931) were not actually presented at the time, but were erroneously added retrospectively in 1988 and 1991. This caused a degree of controversy, as this resulted in Jack Dyer's record tally of six medals being reduced to five (with his 1932 award being removed), equal with Kevin Bartlett. In addition, Ray Martin also had his back-to-back medals reduced to one (his 1934 award was removed), and a further twelve players - including those from the club's earliest years in the VFL/AFL, members of the club's 1920-1921 premiership teams, and teammates of Dyer - had all of their awards removed from the records.

References

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