Jack Dyer Medal
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The Jack Dyer Medal is an Australian rules football award given each season to the player or players adjudged Best and Fairest for the Richmond Football Club.
The award is now named in honour of Jack Dyer, a champion ruckman who won the award six times from 1932 to 1946. He was one of the inaugural "Legends" inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 1996.
Other multiple winners have been Kevin Bartlett (five times); Wayne Campbell and dual Brownlow Medallist Roy Wright (four times each); Ron Branton, Neville Crowe, Geoff Raines and Brownlow Medallist Bill Morris (three times each). Barney Herbert, Hugh James, Vic Thorp, Basil McCormack, Jack Titus, Ray Martin, Leo Merrett, Des Rowe, Dave Cuzens, Royce Hart, Maurice Rioli, Dale Weightman, Matthew Knights, Tony Free and, most recently, Joel Bowden have all won the award twice.
Bill Morris, Roy Wright and Ian Stewart all won the Best and Fairest in the same years that they won their Brownlow Medals at Richmond. Stan Judkins, Brownlow Medallist in 1930, never won the Club's award.
Recipients:
- 2006 Kane Johnson
- 2005 Joel Bowden
- 2004 Joel Bowden
- 2003 Mark Coughlan
- 2002 Wayne Campbell
- 2001 Darren Gaspar
- 2000 Andrew Kellaway
- 1999 Wayne Campbell
- 1998 Nick Daffy
- 1997 Wayne Campbell
- 1996 Paul Broderick
- 1995 Wayne Campbell
- 1994 Chris Bond
- 1993 Tony Free
- 1992 Matthew Knights
- 1991 Craig Lambert
- 1990 Matthew Knights
- 1989 Tony Free
- 1988 Michael Pickering
- 1987 Dale Weightman
- 1986 Dale Weightman
- 1985 Trevor Poole
- 1984 Mark Lee
- 1983 Maurice Rioli
- 1982 Maurice Rioli
- 1981 Geoff Raines
- 1980 Geoff Raines
- 1979 Barry Rowlings
- 1978 Geoff Raines
- 1977 Kevin Bartlett
- 1976 Kevin Sheedy
- 1975 Kevin Morris
- 1974 Kevin Bartlett
- 1973 Kevin Bartlett
- 1972 Royce Hart
- 1971 Ian Stewart
- 1970 Francis Bourke
- 1969 Royce Hart
- 1968 Kevin Bartlett
- 1967 Kevin Bartlett
- 1966 Neville Crowe
- 1965 Bill Barrot
- 1964 Neville Crowe
- 1963 Neville Crowe
- 1962 Ron Branton
- 1961 Ron Branton
- 1960 Ron Branton
- 1959 Dave Cuzens
- 1958 Dave Cuzens
- 1957 Roy Wright
- 1956 Laurie Sharp
- 1955 Des Rowe
- 1954 Roy Wright
- 1953 Havel Rowe
- 1952 Roy Wright
- 1951 Des Rowe & Roy Wright
- 1950 Bill Morris
- 1949 Geoff Spring
- 1948 Bill Morris
- 1947 Bill Wilson
- 1946 Jack Dyer
- 1945 Bill Morris
- 1944 Leo Merrett
- 1943 Ron Durham
- 1942 Leo Merrett
- 1941 Jack Titus
- 1940 Jack Dyer
- 1939 Jack Dyer
- 1938 Jack Dyer
- 1937 Jack Dyer
- 1936 Martin Bolger
- 1935 Ray Martin
- 1934 Ray Martin
- 1933 Maurie Hunter
- 1932 Jack Dyer
- 1931 Not Awarded
- 1930 Not Awarded
- 1929 Jack Titus
- 1928 Basil McCormack
- 1927 Basil McCormack
- 1926 Alan Geddes
- 1925 Thomas O'Halloran
- 1924 Vic Thorp
- 1923 Hugh James
- 1922 Mel Morris
- 1921 Hugh James
- 1920 Dan Minogue
- 1919 Barney Herbert
- 1918 Barney Herbert
- 1917 Vic Thorp
- 1916 Artie Bettles
- 1915 Not Awarded
- 1914 Sid Reeves
- 1913 Charlie Ricketts
- 1912 Not Awarded
- 1911 William Mahoney
[edit] References
- Hogan P: The Tigers Of Old , Richmond FC, Melbourne 1996
