1956 VFL Season: Brownlow Medal

Top 10 Players

Rank Player Team(s) Vote(s) 3 2 1
1st Peter Box Footscray 22 5 2 3
2nd Peter Pianto Geelong 16 4 2 0
3rd Jim Dorgan South Melbourne 15 4 1 1
4th Ron Barassi Melbourne 13 3 1 2
John Beckwith Melbourne 13 1 4 2
Roy Simmonds Hawthorn 13 4 0 1
7th Neil Roberts St Kilda 12 1 3 3
8th Denis Cordner Melbourne 11 3 0 2
John O'Mahoney Hawthorn 11 3 1 0
Des Rowe Richmond 11 1 2 4
Bernie Smith Geelong 11 3 1 0
Bill Stephen Fitzroy 11 3 1 0

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

Team Summary

Rank Team Vote(s) Leader(s)
1st Footscray 62 Peter Box (22)
2nd Carlton 61 John James (10)
3rd Geelong 59 Peter Pianto (16)
4th Melbourne 58 Ron Barassi, John Beckwith (13)
5th Fitzroy 55 Bill Stephen (11)
Collingwood 55 Neil Mann, Thorold Merrett (9)
7th Richmond 49 Des Rowe (11)
8th Essendon 47 Jack Clarke (10)
9th Hawthorn 45 Roy Simmonds (13)
10th South Melbourne 40 Jim Dorgan (15)
11th North Melbourne 38 Bob Brooker, Laurie Dwyer (8)
12th St Kilda 36 Neil Roberts (12)
* undesignated 7

*: 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).