1931 VFL Season: Brownlow Medal

Top 10 Players

Rank Player Team(s) Vote(s) 3 2 1
1st Haydn Bunton Fitzroy 26 6 3 2
2nd Allan Hopkins Footscray 25 6 3 1
3rd Reg Hickey Geelong 19 5 2 0
4th Johnny Lewis North Melbourne 17 2 4 3
5th Percy Beames Melbourne 15 4 1 1
Stan Judkins Richmond 15 2 4 1
Ivan McAlpine Footscray 15 3 3 0
8th Fred Phillips St Kilda 14 2 4 0
9th Colin Martyn Carlton 11 2 2 1
Harold Matthews St Kilda 11 1 3 2
Howard Okey Essendon 11 3 1 0
Harold Rumney Collingwood 11 2 1 3
Ernie Utting Hawthorn 11 2 0 5

*: Player was ineligible to receive the medal this season.

Team Summary

Rank Team Vote(s) Leader(s)
1st Geelong 65 Reg Hickey (19)
2nd Richmond 62 Stan Judkins (15)
3rd Footscray 60 Allan Hopkins (25)
4th Fitzroy 57 Haydn Bunton (26)
5th North Melbourne 55 Johnny Lewis (17)
6th Collingwood 54 Harold Rumney (11)
7th Essendon 50 Howard Okey (11)
St Kilda 50 Fred Phillips (14)
9th Melbourne 49 Percy Beames (15)
10th Hawthorn 48 Ernie Utting (11)
11th Carlton 47 Colin Martyn (11)
12th South Melbourne 45 Harry Clarke (9)
* undesignated 6

*: Undesignated votes for players who played with more than one team during the home-and-away season (due to incomplete match-level records pre-1984).