1946 VFL Season: Brownlow Medal

Top 10 Players

Rank Player Team(s) Vote(s) 3 2 1
1st Don Cordner Melbourne 20 4 3 2
2nd Jack Howell Carlton 19 5 2 0
Bill Morris Richmond 19 3 3 4
4th Bert Deacon Carlton 17 4 2 1
5th Allan Ruthven Fitzroy 16 3 2 3
6th Sid Dyer North Melbourne 15 3 3 0
Fred Flanagan Geelong 15 2 4 1
8th Tom Morrow Geelong 14 4 1 0
Bill Twomey Collingwood 14 4 1 0
10th Bill Pearson Essendon 13 3 1 2

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

Team Summary

Rank Team Vote(s) Leader(s)
1st Richmond 67 Bill Morris (19)
2nd Melbourne 61 Don Cordner (20)
3rd Essendon 60 Bill Pearson (13)
4th Fitzroy 54 Allan Ruthven (16)
Collingwood 54 Bill Twomey (14)
Footscray 54 Jim Miller (9)
7th Geelong 53 Fred Flanagan (15)
8th North Melbourne 52 Sid Dyer (15)
9th Carlton 51 Jack Howell (19)
10th South Melbourne 47 Harry Mears (11)
11th St Kilda 45 Harold Bray, Keith Rosewarne (9)
12th Hawthorn 39 Col Austen, Jim Bohan (9)
* undesignated 11

*: 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).