1950 VFL Season: Brownlow Medal

Top 10 Players

Rank Player Team(s) Vote(s) 3 2 1
1st Allan Ruthven Fitzroy 21 4 3 3
2nd Fred Flanagan Geelong 18 5 1 1
3rd Bill Morris Richmond 17 5 1 0
Bruce Phillips St Kilda 17 3 3 2
Charlie Sutton Footscray 17 3 2 4
6th Bill Hutchison Essendon 15 ? ? 1
7th Denis Cordner Melbourne 12 3 ? ?
Ollie Grieve Carlton 12 4 0 0
Norm McDonald Essendon 12 ? ? ?
Bill Stephen Fitzroy 12 ? ? ?

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

Team Summary

Rank Team Vote(s) Leader(s)
1st Essendon 69 Bill Hutchison (15)
2nd Geelong 60 Fred Flanagan (18)
3rd Collingwood 59 Neil Mann, Bob Rose (10)
Richmond 59 Bill Morris (17)
5th St Kilda 56 Bruce Phillips (17)
6th Melbourne 54 Denis Cordner (12)
7th Fitzroy 50 Allan Ruthven (21)
8th Footscray 48 Charlie Sutton (17)
9th North Melbourne 45 Ted Jarrard, Jock McCorkell, Jock Spencer (6)
10th Carlton 40 Ollie Grieve (12)
South Melbourne 40 Billy Williams (10)
12th Hawthorn 30 Jim Robison (8)
* undesignated 2

*: 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).