1959 VFL Season: Brownlow Medal

Top 10 Players

Rank Player Team(s) Vote(s) 3 2 1
1st Verdun Howell St Kilda 20 3 5 1
Bob Skilton South Melbourne 20 5 2 1
3rd Ray Gabelich Collingwood 14 3 2 1
Hugh Mitchell Essendon 14 4 0 2
Bill Serong Collingwood 14 4 0 2
Ted Whitten Footscray 14 3 2 1
7th Ron Hovey Geelong 12 2 2 2
Thorold Merrett Collingwood 12 1 3 3
* Graham Donaldson Carlton 11 2 2 1
9th Bob Johnson Melbourne 10 3 0 1
Brian McGowan South Melbourne 10 1 3 1

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

Team Summary

Rank Team Vote(s) Leader(s)
1st Carlton 66 Graham Donaldson (11)
2nd Essendon 62 Hugh Mitchell (14)
3rd South Melbourne 60 Bob Skilton (20)
4th Melbourne 54 Bob Johnson (10)
Collingwood 54 Ray Gabelich, Bill Serong (14)
6th St Kilda 53 Verdun Howell (20)
Hawthorn 53 Colin Youren (9)
8th Fitzroy 48 Owen Abrahams, Ian Aston (8)
9th Footscray 44 Ted Whitten (14)
10th Geelong 43 Ron Hovey (12)
11th Richmond 40 Ron Branton, Ron McDonald, Col Saddington (7)
12th North Melbourne 35 Allen Aylett (8)