1939 VFL Season: Brownlow Medal

Top 10 Players

Rank Player Team(s) Vote(s) 3 2 1
1st Marcus Whelan Collingwood 23 6 2 1
2nd Harry Hickey Footscray 20 3 5 1
3rd Dick Reynolds Essendon 19 5 2 0
4th Jack Dyer Richmond 17 4 2 1
5th Wilfred Smallhorn Fitzroy 16 4 2 0
6th Jock Cordner North Melbourne 14 2 3 2
Sid Dyer North Melbourne 14 4 1 0
8th Herbie Matthews South Melbourne 13 2 2 3
9th Stan Spinks Hawthorn 12 4 0 0
10th Jim Cleary South Melbourne 11 ? ? ?
Alby Pannam Collingwood 11 ? ? ?
Hugh Torney Essendon 11 ? ? ?
* Jack Mueller Melbourne 11 ? ? ?

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

Team Summary

Rank Team Vote(s) Leader(s)
1st Richmond 63 Jack Dyer (17)
2nd North Melbourne 54 Jock Cordner, Sid Dyer (14)
3rd Collingwood 53 Marcus Whelan (23)
4th Essendon 50 Dick Reynolds (19)
5th St Kilda 49 Col Williamson (9)
Fitzroy 49 Wilfred Smallhorn (16)
7th Hawthorn 46 Stan Spinks (12)
8th Footscray 45 Harry Hickey (20)
9th South Melbourne 44 Herbie Matthews (13)
10th Melbourne 43 Jack Mueller (11)
11th Carlton 40 Ken Baxter, Frank Gill (6)
12th Geelong 35 Leo Dean (6)
* undesignated 5

*: 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).