1971 VFL Season: Brownlow Medal

Top 10 Players

Rank Player Team(s) Vote(s) 3 2 1
1st Ian Stewart Richmond 21 6 0 3
2nd Barry Davis Essendon 18 5 0 3
Peter Hudson Hawthorn 18 4 2 2
John McIntosh St Kilda 18 4 2 2
5th Gary Dempsey Footscray 16 4 0 4
Alex Ruscuklic Fitzroy 16 4 2 0
Bill Ryan Geelong 16 3 2 3
Ross Smith St Kilda 16 3 3 1
9th Des Tuddenham Collingwood 15 3 2 2
10th John Murphy Fitzroy 14 2 3 2

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

Team Summary

Rank Team Vote(s) Leader(s)
1st St Kilda 91 John McIntosh (18)
2nd Hawthorn 87 Peter Hudson (18)
3rd Richmond 79 Ian Stewart (21)
4th Collingwood 77 Des Tuddenham (15)
5th Fitzroy 70 Alex Ruscuklic (16)
6th Footscray 62 Gary Dempsey (16)
7th Melbourne 58 Stan Alves, Greg Wells (10)
8th Carlton 55 Adrian Gallagher, John Nicholls (7)
9th Essendon 51 Barry Davis (18)
10th Geelong 40 Bill Ryan (16)
11th South Melbourne 39 Wayne Walsh (11)
North Melbourne 39 Keith Greig (10)
* undesignated 8

*: 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).