1952 VFL Season: Brownlow Medal

Top 10 Players

Rank Player Team(s) Vote(s) 3 2 1
1st Bill Hutchison Essendon 21 5 2 2
Roy Wright Richmond 21 5 3 0
3rd Harold Bray St Kilda 19 4 2 3
4th Peter Pianto Geelong 17 4 1 3
5th Bill Wilson Richmond 15 1 5 2
6th Jack Collins Footscray 12 3 1 1
Thorold Merrett Collingwood 12 2 1 4
8th Denis Cordner Melbourne 11 2 2 1
Stuart Spencer Melbourne 11 3 0 2
10th Ollie Grieve Carlton 10 2 1 2
Bill Gunn South Melbourne 10 1 3 1
John Hyde Geelong 10 3 0 1
John Kennedy Hawthorn 10 2 1 2
Jim Ross St Kilda 10 3 0 1

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

Team Summary

Rank Team Vote(s) Leader(s)
1st Geelong 63 Peter Pianto (17)
2nd Richmond 59 Roy Wright (21)
3rd Essendon 54 Bill Hutchison (21)
Collingwood 54 Thorold Merrett (12)
5th Carlton 51 Ollie Grieve (10)
North Melbourne 51 Ted Larsen, Jock Spencer (7)
7th Melbourne 50 Denis Cordner, Stuart Spencer (11)
St Kilda 50 Harold Bray (19)
9th South Melbourne 49 Bill Gunn (10)
10th Fitzroy 42 Allan Ruthven (9)
11th Hawthorn 40 John Kennedy (10)
12th Footscray 37 Jack Collins (12)
^ unaccounted 12

^: 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).