1977 VFL Season: Brownlow Medal

Top 10 Players

Rank Player Team(s) Vote(s) 3 2 1
1st Graham Teasdale South Melbourne 59 17 3 2
2nd Kevin Bartlett Richmond 45 10 5 5
3rd Bill Picken Collingwood 41 12 0 5
4th Bruce Doull Carlton 34 8 4 2
Leigh Matthews Hawthorn 34 9 3 1
Len Thompson Collingwood 34 8 4 2
* Jeff Sarau St Kilda 30 7 4 1
7th Gary Dempsey Footscray 27 4 6 3
Gary Hardeman Melbourne 27 5 5 2
9th David Dench North Melbourne 26 6 1 6
10th Simon Madden Essendon 25 4 4 5

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

Team Summary

Rank Team Vote(s) Leader(s)
1st Collingwood 173 Bill Picken (41)
2nd North Melbourne 165 David Dench (26)
3rd Hawthorn 153 Leigh Matthews (34)
4th Richmond 147 Kevin Bartlett (45)
5th South Melbourne 136 Graham Teasdale (59)
6th Carlton 134 Bruce Doull (34)
7th Footscray 113 Gary Dempsey (27)
8th Melbourne 107 Gary Hardeman (27)
9th Fitzroy 103 Garry Wilson (21)
10th Essendon 99 Simon Madden (25)
11th Geelong 94 Paul Sarah (15)
12th St Kilda 82 Jeff Sarau (30)
* undesignated 6

*: 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).