Des Fothergill
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Desmond Hugh Fothergill was an Australian rules footballer who played for Collingwood Football Club in the Victorian Football League and for Williamstown Football Club in the Victorian Football Associ
Fothergill in the late 1930s
Brownlow Medal
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The Charles Brownlow Trophy, better known as the Brownlow Medal, is awarded to the best and fairest player in the Australian Football League during the home-and-away season, as determined by votes cas
The first Brownlow Medal, awarded to Edward Greeves Jr. in 1924
Brownlow Medal votes are allocated by the game-controlling field umpires (pictured in yellow attire).
Jobe Watson was originally declared the winner of the 2012 Brownlow Medal by polling four more votes than runners up Trent Cotchin and Sam Mitchell; however, in November 2016, he was retrospectively deemed ineligible for the award due to his part in the Essendon Football Club supplements saga, and the title was given to Cotchin and Mitchell.
Crown Resorts, current home of the Brownlow Medal ceremony