1949 VFL Season: Brownlow Medal

Top 10 Players

Rank Player Team(s) Vote(s) 3 2 1
1st Col Austen Hawthorn 23 5 3 2
Ron Clegg South Melbourne 23 6 2 1
3rd Harold Bray St Kilda 20 6 0 2
4th John Coleman Essendon 15 ? ? ?
5th Fred Flanagan Geelong 14 ? ? ?
Jim Ross St Kilda 14 ? ? ?
7th Ern Henfry Carlton 13 ? ? ?
8th Don Cordner Melbourne 12 ? ? ?
Bill Hutchison Essendon 12 ? ? ?
Bill Wilson Richmond 12 ? ? ?

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

Team Summary

Rank Team Vote(s) Leader(s)
1st Carlton 57 Ern Henfry (13)
2nd South Melbourne 54 Ron Clegg (23)
Richmond 54 Bill Wilson (12)
4th Geelong 52 Fred Flanagan (14)
Essendon 52 John Coleman (15)
North Melbourne 52 Kevin Dynon, Les Foote (11)
7th St Kilda 51 Harold Bray (20)
Collingwood 51 Bob Rose (10)
9th Melbourne 50 Don Cordner (12)
10th Hawthorn 48 Col Austen (23)
11th Footscray 43 Charlie Sutton (10)
12th Fitzroy 42 Allan Ruthven (11)
* undesignated 3
^ unaccounted 3

*: 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).