The Mulrooney Medal is an Australian rules football award for the best and fairest player in the AFL Canberra first-grade competition. It has been the premier individual award for Australian rules football in the Australian Capital Territory since 1936.[1] From 2011 to 2013, the medal was awarded to the best and fairest player in the Eastern Conference of the North East Australian Football League.[2]
It was named after football administrator John L. Mulrooney, for his contribution to Australian rules football in Canberra.[3]
Winners
Year | Player | Club | Votes | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|
2023 | Guy Richardson | Ainslie | 21 | [4] |
2023 | Thomas Simpson | Belconnen | 21 | [5] |
2022 | Luke Wharton | Belconnen | 20 | |
2021 | Will Griggs | Queanbeyan | 17 | [6] |
2020 | Angus Baker | Eastlake | 14 | |
2019 | Beau Walker | Belconnen | 15 | [7] |
2018 | Kel Evans | Queanbeyan | 15 | [8] |
2017 | Beau Walker | Belconnen | 18 | [9] |
2016 | James Bennett | Belconnen | 20 | [10] |
2015 | Isaac Taylor | Belconnen | 21 | [11] |
2013 | James Bennett | Belconnen | 21 | [12] |
2012 | Shane Harris | Belconnen | 16 | [13] |
2011 | Daniel Currie | Sydney Swans Reserves | 16 | [14] |
Jarred Moore | Sydney Swans Reserves | 16 | [14] | |
2010 | Mitch Daniher | Queanbeyan | 17 | [15] |
2009 | Mitch Daniher | Queanbeyan | 13 | [16] |
Chad Gibson | Eastlake | 13 | [16] | |
Craig Healey | Tuggeranong | 13 | [16] | |
2008 | Ryan Lewis | Ainslie | 19 | [17] |
2007 | Jarred Moore | Sydney Swans Reserves | 23 | [3] |
2006 | David Spriggs | Sydney Swans Reserves | 23 | [3] |
2005 | Jared Ilett | Belconnen | 21 | [18] |
2004 | Nathan McDonald | Wagga Tigers | 22 | [19] |
2003 | Steve Hazelman | Belconnen | 17 | [20] |
Luke Jess | Tuggeranong | 17 | [21] | |
2002 | Daniel Jacques | Wagga Tigers | [19] | |
2001 | Steve Mahar | Belconnen | [20] | |
2000 | Guy Cannon | Eastlake | [22] | |
1999 | Shane Clarke | Belconnen | [20] | |
1998 | Stafford Cooper | Tuggeranong | 20 | [21] |
1997 | Steve Vizy | Queanbeyan | [23] | |
1996 | Steve Wilson | Eastlake | [22] | |
1995 | Steve Wilson | Southern District | 12 | [24] |
1994 | Michael Kennedy | Queanbeyan | 17 | [25] |
1993 | John Garnaut | Southern District | 16 | [26] |
1992 | Marcus Sheridan | Weston Creek | 15 | [27] |
1991 | Brent Smith | Belconnen | 12 | [28] |
1990 | Steve Cornish | Queanbeyan | 13 | [29] |
Glen Dickerson* | Eastlake | 13 | [29] | |
Andrew Mills* | Manuka Weston | 13 | [29] | |
Michael Swan | Manuka Weston | 13 | [29] | |
Tony Wynd | Queanbeyan | 13 | [29] | |
1989 | Tony Wynd | Queanbeyan | 13 | [30] |
1988 | Tony Wynd | Queanbeyan | 18 | [31] |
1987 | Shane Fitzsimmons | Manuka Weston | 18 | [32] |
1986 | Peter Hamilton | Ainslie | 21 | [33] |
1985 | Simon Overland | Eastlake | 29 | [34] |
1984 | Geoff Hocking | Belconnen | 30 | [35] |
1983 | Tony Wynd | Queanbeyan | 27 | [36] |
1982 | Greg Nichols | Ainslie | 39 | [37] |
1981 | Keith Miller | Eastlake | 39 | [38] |
1980 | John Miller | Ainslie | 27 | [39] |
1979 | Keith Miller | Eastlake | 42 | [40] |
1978 | Greg Eaves | West Canberra | 43 | [41] |
1977 | Edney Blackaby | Manuka | 23 | [42] |
1976 | Mike Demaine | West Canberra | 17 | [43] |
1975 | Robert White | Belconnen | 26 | [44] |
1974 | Peter Phillipou | Eastlake | 15 | [45] |
1973 | Ralph Rendell | Ainslie | 20 | [46] |
1972 | Rob Wilson | ANU | 16 | [47] |
Paul Macdonald* | Eastlake | 16 | [47] | |
1971 | Bill Vaughan | Manuka | 21 | [48] |
1970 | Bill Whittakers | ANU | 17 | [49] |
1969 | Russ de Goldi | Acton | 17 | [50] |
1968 | Paul Feltham | Eastlake | 17 | [51] |
1967 | Neil Lewthwaite | Acton | 17 | [52] |
1966 | Bill Drake | Ainslie | 19 | [53] |
1965 | Glen Bow | Manuka | [54] | |
1964 | Keith Mitchell | Turner | 27 | [55] |
1963 | Bob Shearer | Eastlake | 21 | [56] |
1962 | Michael Codd | Manuka | 18 | [57] |
1961 | Col Monger | Acton | 16 | [58] |
1960 | Jim Wilson | Acton | 17 | [59] |
1959 | Barry Griffiths | Acton | 25 | [60] |
1958 | John Moody | Royal Military College | 29 | [61] |
1957 | John Moody | Royal Military College | 31 | [62] |
1956 | Barry Browning | Ainslie | 20 | [63] |
1955 | Barry Browning | Ainslie | 15 | [64] |
1954 | Roy Watterston | Queanbeyan/Acton | 17 | [65] |
1953 | Roy Watterston | Queanbeyan/Acton | 18 | [66] |
1952 | John Gleeson | Turner | 17 | [67] |
1951 | Ern Hurtig | Eastlake | 13 | [68] |
Barry McCabe | Ainslie | 13 | [68] | |
1950 | Brendan Cain | Ainslie | 14 | [69] |
Percy Eagles | Manuka | 14 | [69] | |
Keith Schow | Queanbeyan | 14 | [69] | |
1949 | Jim Brophy | Manuka | [70] | |
1948 | Harold Maddigan | Turner | 18 | [71] |
1947 | Mervyn Lee | Acton | 25 | [72] |
1946 | Alan Stevens | Ainslie | 23 | [73] |
1945 | Fred Green | Navy | [74] | |
1944 | – | - | ||
1943 | – | - | ||
1942 | – | - | ||
1941 | Jack Furniss | Fairbairn | [75] | |
1940 | Robert Bloomfield | Ainslie | [76] | |
1939 | Alan Ware | Manuka | [77] | |
1938 | Jack Dorman* | Manuka | 13 | [78] |
Tom Kelly | Queanbeyan | 13 | [78] | |
Merv Strang* | Queanbeyan | 13 | [78] | |
1937 | Phil Barrett | Manuka | [79] | |
1936 | Dick Roe | Ainslie | 16 | [80] |
Roy Seton | Acton | 16 | [80] |
*Retrospectively awarded
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External links
- AFL Canberra Summary Chart from Full Points Footy, archived from the original on 6 August 2011