1951 VFL Season: Brownlow Medal

Top 10 Players

Rank Player Team(s) Vote(s) 3 2 1
1st Bernie Smith Geelong 23 6 2 1
2nd Ron Clegg South Melbourne 20 6 0 2
3rd Bill Hutchison Essendon 16 ? ? ?
4th Ray Poulter Richmond 15 ? ? ?
5th Harold Bray St Kilda 14 ? ? ?
Denis Cordner Melbourne 14 ? ? ?
Bob Rose Collingwood 14 ? ? ?
Charlie Sutton Footscray 14 ? ? ?
9th Jim Clark Carlton 13 ? ? ?
Des Rowe Richmond 13 ? ? ?

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

Team Summary

Rank Team Vote(s) Leader(s)
1st Geelong 66 Bernie Smith (23)
2nd Richmond 63 Ray Poulter (15)
3rd Essendon 54 Bill Hutchison (16)
South Melbourne 54 Ron Clegg (20)
5th Collingwood 53 Bob Rose (14)
6th Carlton 52 Jim Clark (13)
7th Footscray 50 Charlie Sutton (14)
8th Fitzroy 49 Allan Ruthven (11)
9th Melbourne 47 Denis Cordner (14)
St Kilda 47 Harold Bray (14)
11th North Melbourne 37 Les Foote (10)
Hawthorn 37 John Kennedy (12)
* undesignated 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).