1934 Brownlow Medal

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1934 Brownlow Medal
Winner Dick Reynolds (Essendon)
19 votes
  1933  · Brownlow Medal ·  1935  

The 1934 Brownlow Medal was the 11th year the award was presented to the player adjudged the fairest and best player during the Victorian Football League (VFL) home-and-away season. [1] Dick Reynolds of the Essendon Football Club won the medal by polling nineteen votes during the 1934 VFL season. [2]

In the last game of the 1934 season, Haydn Bunton Sr dominated; and, as he walked off the ground, he made a flippant remark to umpire Jack McMurray Sr., along the lines of: "That wasn't bad today, Jack."

"Never try to bribe an umpire," McMurray apparently replied—and left him out of the votes. Bunton lost the Brownlow medal to Dick Reynolds by one vote. [3]

Leading vote-getters

PlayerVotes
1st Dick Reynolds (Essendon)19
2nd Haydn Bunton (Fitzroy)18
=3rd Jack Regan (Collingwood)17
Keith Shea (Carlton)
Ray Martin (Richmond)
6th Wilfred Smallhorn (Fitzroy)16
7th Gordon Strang (Richmond)14
8th Bob Pratt (South Melbourne)13
9th Norman Ware (Footscray)12
=10th Jack Davis (St Kilda)11
Keith Forbes (Essendon)
Colin Watson (St Kilda)

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References

  1. Lovett, Michael, ed. (2009). AFL Record Season Guide 2009. Docklands, Victoria: Slattery Media Group. p. 496. ISBN   978-0-9805162-6-5.
  2. "1934 Brownlow Medal". AFL Tables. Retrieved 2 November 2016.
  3. "FFC: Articles, Finest Lion of them all, Haydn Bunton..." 29 August 2007. Archived from the original on 29 August 2007. Retrieved 10 November 2023.