1952 Brownlow Medal

November 2016 November 2016 1952 Brownlow Medal Winner Bill Hutchison ()Roy Wright ()21 votes 1951 Brownlow Medal 1953 The 1952 Brownlow Medal was the 25th 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 Bill Hutchison of the Essendon Football Club and Roy Wright of the Richmond Football Club both won the medal by polling twenty-one votes during the 1952 VFL season.1952 Brownlow Medal http://afltables.com/afl/brownlow/brownlow1952.html AFL Tables 5 November 2016 Under the tie-breaker rules in place in 1952, Wright was originally the outright winner: he and Hutchison were tied on 21 votes and five 3-vote games, but Wright polled three 2-vote games to Hutchison's two.https://afltables.com/afl/brownlow/brownlow_idx.html Brownlow Medal Winners AFL Tables 23 October 2021 In 1980, the League removed the tie-break from the rules and allowed for multiple tied winners in the same year; and in 1989 it retrospectively removed the tie-breaker from all previous counts, elevating Hutchison to joint winner of the 1952 medal.The Canberra Times Canberra, ACT Medals awarded retrospectively 6 April 1989 18 Leading votegetters Player Votes=1st Bill Hutchison () 21 Roy Wright () 3rd Harold Bray () 19 4th Peter Pianto () 17 5th Bill Wilson () 15=6th Thorold Merrett () 12 Jack Collins ()=8th Denis Cordner () 11 Stuart Spencer ()=10th Ollie Grieve () 10 John Hyde () John Kennedy () Bill Gunn () Jim Ross () References Category:1952 in Australian rules football 1952