1930 Brownlow Medal

Victorian Football League player award December 2017 May 2026 1930 Brownlow Medal Winners Harry Collier ()Allan Hopkins ()Stan Judkins ()4 votes 1929 Brownlow Medal 1931 The 1930 Brownlow Medal was the seventh year the award was presented to the player adjudged the fairest and best player during the Victorian Football League (VFL) home-and-away season.AFL Record Season Guide 2009 2009 Lovett, Michael Slattery Media Group Docklands, Victoria 496 978-0-9805162-6-5 The award was won jointly by Stan Judkins of the Richmond Football Club, Harry Collier of the Collingwood Football Club, and Allan Hopkins of the Footscray Football Club. It was the first time more than one player won the award in the same year. History Under the voting system in place at the time, the central umpire awarded one vote to the player he deemed best on the ground in each match. When the votes were counted on 17 September, three players tied for the most votes with four each: Harry Collier of the Collingwood Football Club, Allan Hopkins of the Footscray Football Club, and Stan Judkins of the Richmond Football Club. It was the first time there had been a tie for the award;The Age Melbourne, VIC Football - Brownlow Medal 18 September 1930 5 Forward however, at the time, the league did not recognise ties for the medal, and they needed to break the tie. The medal was not immediately awarded, as the rules governing the medal were at this time contradictory: one provision provided that the winner of the medal would be player who polled the largest percentage of votes against games played; and a second provision which had existed since 1924 stated that in the case of a tie for total votes, that the umpires be called together to decide upon on a winner among the tied players.The Herald Melbourne, VIC Brownlow Medal - Conditions of Award Conflict 18 September 1930 15The Age Melbourne, VIC Brownlow Medal 9 24 April 1924The Age Melbourne, VIC Football - League semi-final 19 September 1930 6 There were also three informal votes cast; that is, votes in which the committee was unable to determine for which player the umpire had intended to vote, which was not uncommon at the time,The Age Melbourne, VIC Brownlow Medal – awarded to Judkins 18 Observer 27 September 1930 one of which was understood to have read 'Collier' without differentiating between Harry Collier and his brother Albert (who finished one vote behind the leaders).https://forever.collingwoodfc.com.au/the-brownlow-medallists-harry-collier/ The Brownlow Medallists: Harry Collier Glenn McFarlane 18 May 2021 Collingwood Forever The delegates of the Umpire and Permit Committee met on 19 September; it did not make a final decision, instead electing to defer the matter to the next full meeting of all League delegates. The delegates recommended that no medal be awarded, owing in large part to the informal votes.The Age Melbourne, VIC Brownlow Medal 18 20 September 1930 The full League met on 26 September and rejected the recommendation, instead awarding the medal to Judkins on the 'percentage of votes vs games' provision – Judkins polled his four votes from 12 games, compared with Hopkins' 15 games and Collier's 18 games. The outcome is viewed with irony, as the reason for Judkins' lower game count was that he was dropped to the seconds for the last five rounds due to poor form.Tigers snare Judkins' 1930 Brownlow https://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/35773/tigers-snare-judkins-1930-brownlow 18 May 2021 20 July 2016 Tony Greenberg In its 26 September meeting, the League appointed a subcommittee to revise the medal's rules, resulting in a new voting system and tiebreaker rule being established from the 1931 season.The Argus Melbourne, VIC Brownlow Football Medal awarded to Judkins 27 September 1930 21 In 1980, the league removed all tie-breakers from its Brownlow Medal procedure, and in 1989 elected to award retrospective Brownlow Medals to all players who had previously polled the most votes but lost on a tie-breaker. As such, Judkins, Hopkins and Collier are all now considered joint Brownlow Medallists for the 1930 season.Ross (1996), p 332http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article11325670 Football Matthews and Fothergill Tie for Medal. The Argus Melbourne 5 September 1940 30 October 2012 12 National Library of Australia Leading vote-getters Player Votes =1st Harry Collier () 4Allan Hopkins ()Stan Judkins () =4th Albert Collier () 3Keith Forbes ()Charles Chapman ()George Todd ()Jack Sharpley ()Bob Johnson ()Bert Foster ()Peter Reville () References Category:1930 in Australian rules football 1930