1938 VFL Season: Brownlow Medal

Top 10 Players

Rank Player Team(s) Vote(s) 3 2 1
1st Dick Reynolds Essendon 18 4 1 4
2nd Stan Spinks Hawthorn 17 4 2 1
3rd Marcus Boyall Collingwood 15 2 4 1
Alby Morrison Footscray 15 2 4 1
Wilfred Smallhorn Fitzroy 15 1 4 4
6th Jock Cordner North Melbourne 14 3 2 1
7th Jack Collins Geelong 13 4 0 1
Norm Ware Footscray 13 3 2 0
9th Des Fothergill Collingwood 12 2 0 6
Gordon Jones Melbourne 12 4 0 0
Jim Park Carlton 12 3 1 1
Marcus Whelan Collingwood 12 1 4 1

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

Team Summary

Rank Team Vote(s) Leader(s)
1st Footscray 67 Alby Morrison (15)
2nd Collingwood 64 Marcus Boyall (15)
3rd Carlton 59 Jim Park (12)
4th Essendon 54 Dick Reynolds (18)
5th St Kilda 52 Jack Davis (9)
6th Geelong 51 Jack Collins (13)
7th Hawthorn 50 Stan Spinks (17)
8th Richmond 48 Kevin O'Neill (10)
9th Melbourne 44 Gordon Jones (12)
10th Fitzroy 42 Wilfred Smallhorn (15)
11th South Melbourne 40 Jack Graham (11)
12th North Melbourne 39 Jock Cordner (14)
* undesignated 1
^ unaccounted 1

*: 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).
^: Unaccounted votes from the total votes available during the home-and-away season (due to incomplete match-level records pre-1984 and/or invalid votes).