1949 Brownlow Medal
| 1949 Brownlow Medal | |
|---|---|
| Winner | ) 23 votes |
The 1949 Colin Austen of the Hawthorn Football Club and Ron Clegg of the South Melbourne Football Club both won the medal by polling twenty-three votes during the 1949 VFL season.[2]
Under the tie-breaker rules in place in 1949, Clegg was originally the outright winner: he and Austen were tied on 23 votes, but Clegg polled six 3-vote games to Austen's five.[3] In 1980, the League removed the tie-break from the rules and allowed for multiple tied winners in the same year, and in 1989 it retrospectively removed the tie-breaker from all previous counts, elevating Austen to joint winner of the 1949 medal.[4]
Leading votegetters
| Player | Votes | |
|---|---|---|
| =1st | Col Austen (Hawthorn) | 23 |
| Ron Clegg (South Melbourne) | ||
| 3rd | Harold Bray (St Kilda) | 20 |
| 4th | John Coleman (Essendon) | 15 |
| =5th | Fred Flanagan (Geelong) | 14 |
| Jim Ross (St Kilda) | ||
| 7th | Ern Henfry (Carlton) | 13 |
| =8th | Bill Hutchison (Essendon) | 12 |
| Don Cordner (Melbourne) | ||
| Bill Wilson (Richmond) |
References
- ISBN 978-0-9805162-6-5.
- ^ "1949 Brownlow Medal". AFL Tables. Retrieved 5 November 2016.
- ^ "R. Clegg wins 1949 Brownlow Medal". The Argus. Melbourne, VIC. 1 September 1989. p. 20.
- ^ "Medals awarded retrospectively". The Canberra Times. Canberra, ACT. 6 April 1989. p. 18.
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