Morrish Medal
Encyclopedia
The Morrish Medal is an Australian rules football
award.
Formerly awarded to the Best and Fairest
player in the VFL
Under 19 competition (known as the Thirds prior to 1959), since 1992 the award has been given to the best player in the Victorian TAC Cup
Under 18 competition.
The Morrish Medal was named in honour of Tom Morrish, a long-serving treasurer of the VFL Reserve Grade.
The award is voted by the field umpires in a 3–2–1 format at the conclusion of each match as is used in the AFL's Brownlow Medal
.
VFL Under 19s
VFL Thirds
Australian rules football
Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...
award.
Formerly awarded to the Best and Fairest
Best and Fairest
Best and Fairest is the term commonly used in Australian sport to describe the player adjudged to have had the best performance in a game or over a season for a given sporting club or competition while not receiving a suspension for misconduct or breaching the rules during that season.In the...
player in the VFL
Australian Football League
The Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...
Under 19 competition (known as the Thirds prior to 1959), since 1992 the award has been given to the best player in the Victorian TAC Cup
TAC Cup
The TAC Cup is an under 18 Australian rules football representative competition held in Victoria, Australia. It is based on geographic regions throughout country Victoria and metropolitan Melbourne with each team representing 12 Victorian regions....
Under 18 competition.
The Morrish Medal was named in honour of Tom Morrish, a long-serving treasurer of the VFL Reserve Grade.
The award is voted by the field umpires in a 3–2–1 format at the conclusion of each match as is used in the AFL's Brownlow Medal
Brownlow Medal
The Chas Brownlow Trophy, better known as the Brownlow Medal , is awarded to the "fairest and best" player in the Australian Football League during the regular season as determined by votes cast by the officiating field umpires after each game...
.
Winners
TAC Cup| Year | Player/s | Team(s) | Votes |
| 2011 | Alex Benbow | (Dandenong Stingrays Dandenong Stingrays The Dandenong Stingrays are an Australian rules football team in a Victorian under 18s league called the TAC Cup.1992 saw the birth of the ‘Southern Stingrays’ and they were developed under the leadership of Steve Kennedy and Ron Roach with the home base located at the Ben Kavanagh Reserve,... ) |
22 |
| 2010 | Dyson Heppell Dyson Heppell Dyson Heppell is an Australian rules footballer for the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League .-Junior career:... ; Jackson Sketcher |
(Gippsland Power; Sandringham Dragons) | 21 |
| 2009 | Anton Woods | (Northern Knights Northern Knights The Northern Knights are an Australian rules football club playing in the TAC Cup, an under-18 competition in Victoria, Australia. They are based in Preston, representing the northern suburban area of Melbourne.... ) |
24 |
| 2008 | Farran Priest; Jarryd Blair Jarryd Blair Jarryd Blair is an Australian rules footballer who plays for the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League . Standing at only 172 centimetres, he is a small, pacy wingman/half forward flanker who made his AFL debut in Round 14, 2010 against West Coast at Etihad Stadium.Blair was... |
(Murray Bushrangers Murray Bushrangers Murray Bushrangers is an Australian rules football team playing in TAC Cup since 1993 based in Wangaratta. The team trains in WJ Findlay Oval. The team is coached by Darren Ogier... ; Gippsland Power) |
18 |
| 2007 | Matthew Kreuzer Matthew Kreuzer Matthew Kreuzer is an Australian rules footballer for the Carlton Football Club. He was selected with the first pick overall in the 2007 AFL National Draft.... |
(Northern Knights Northern Knights The Northern Knights are an Australian rules football club playing in the TAC Cup, an under-18 competition in Victoria, Australia. They are based in Preston, representing the northern suburban area of Melbourne.... ) |
19 |
| 2006 | Fortunato Caruso | (Calder Cannons Calder Cannons The Calder Cannons are an Australian rules football club from Melbourne, Australia.The club competes in the TAC Cup and fields squads in the U15, 16 and most importantly the U18s. The club was formed in 1995 after the need for two more metropolitan clubs... ) |
22 |
| 2005 | Fortunato Caruso | (Calder Cannons Calder Cannons The Calder Cannons are an Australian rules football club from Melbourne, Australia.The club competes in the TAC Cup and fields squads in the U15, 16 and most importantly the U18s. The club was formed in 1995 after the need for two more metropolitan clubs... ) |
22 |
| 2004 | Matthew Bate Matthew Bate Matthew Bate is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League .... |
(Eastern Ranges Eastern Ranges The Eastern Ranges are an Australian rules football team in the TAC Cup.The club is a founding member of the TAC Cup competition and has produced several players for the Australian Football League including Nick Malceski, David Wirrpanda, Jess Sinclair, Damian Cupido, Lindsay Gilbee, Travis Cloke,... ) |
21 |
| 2003 | Mungara Brown | (Northern Knights Northern Knights The Northern Knights are an Australian rules football club playing in the TAC Cup, an under-18 competition in Victoria, Australia. They are based in Preston, representing the northern suburban area of Melbourne.... ) |
25 |
| 2002 | Luke Shackleton Luke Shackleton Luke Shackleton is an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Australian Football League .... |
(Tassie Mariners Tassie Mariners The Tassie Mariners are an under-18 Australian rules football club representing the state of Tasmania. They currently play in the AFL National Under 18 Championships and also played in the TAC Cup from 1995 until 2002 when AFL Tasmania instead entered a senior side into the VFL.... ) |
22 |
| 2001 | David Rodan David Rodan David Rodan is a professional Australian rules footballer currently playing for the Port Adelaide Football Club.Rodan is the first Fijian-born player to reach 100 AFL games.-Early life:... |
(Calder Cannons Calder Cannons The Calder Cannons are an Australian rules football club from Melbourne, Australia.The club competes in the TAC Cup and fields squads in the U15, 16 and most importantly the U18s. The club was formed in 1995 after the need for two more metropolitan clubs... ) |
29 |
| 2000 | David Rodan David Rodan David Rodan is a professional Australian rules footballer currently playing for the Port Adelaide Football Club.Rodan is the first Fijian-born player to reach 100 AFL games.-Early life:... |
(Calder Cannons Calder Cannons The Calder Cannons are an Australian rules football club from Melbourne, Australia.The club competes in the TAC Cup and fields squads in the U15, 16 and most importantly the U18s. The club was formed in 1995 after the need for two more metropolitan clubs... ) |
25 |
| 1999 | Matthew Stolarczyk | (Gippsland Power) | 21 |
| 1998 | Lenny Hayes Lenny Hayes Lenny Hayes is a professional Australian rules footballer playing with St Kilda Football Club in the Australian Football League.Hayes is a former captain of St Kilda and continues to be an onfield leader in the Saints' midfield.... |
(NSW/ACT Rams NSW/ACT Rams The NSW/ACT Rams were an under 18 Australian rules football representative club in the TAC Cup.The team, under the guidance of AFL NSW/ACT represented New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory and had the moniker of the Ram, partly derived as an acronym from Riverina, ACT, Murrumbidgee... ) |
21 |
| 1997 | Derek Murray Derek Murray (Australian footballer) Derek Murray is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Port Adelaide in the Australian Football League .Murray was a highly successful junior, playing with the Murray Bushrangers in the TAC Cup in 1997 and 1998... |
(Murray Bushrangers Murray Bushrangers Murray Bushrangers is an Australian rules football team playing in TAC Cup since 1993 based in Wangaratta. The team trains in WJ Findlay Oval. The team is coached by Darren Ogier... ) |
20 |
| 1996 | Nathan Brown Nathan G. Brown Nathan Gordon Brown is a former Australian rules footballer for the Richmond and the Western Bulldogs in the AFL... |
(Bendigo Pioneers Bendigo Pioneers The Bendigo Pioneers are an Australian rules football team in a Victorian under 18s league the TAC Cup.Bendigo Pioneers is an Australian rules football team playing in TAC Cup since 1993 based in Bendigo. The team trains at Wade St Oval, Golden Square. The team is coached by Mark Ellis... ) |
21 |
| 1995 | Paul Hood | (Geelong Falcons Geelong Falcons The Geelong Falcons are a junior Australian rules football representative club in the TAC Cup competition, Victoria, Australia.The club takes in talented junior players from the Geelong, Colac and Warrnambool regions in order to groom them for AFL selection... ) |
26 |
| 1994 | Gary Moorcroft Gary Moorcroft Gary Moorcroft is a former Australian rules football player for the Essendon Bombers and Melbourne Demons in the AFL.Moorcroft caught the attention of talent scouts with his winning of the Morrish Medal in 1994 whilst playing for the Northern Knights.Moorcroft was a short, stocky and explosive... |
(Northern Knights Northern Knights The Northern Knights are an Australian rules football club playing in the TAC Cup, an under-18 competition in Victoria, Australia. They are based in Preston, representing the northern suburban area of Melbourne.... ) |
17 |
| 1993 | Dean Watson | (Southern Stingrays) | 25 |
| 1992 | Bradley J. Smith | (Northern Knights Northern Knights The Northern Knights are an Australian rules football club playing in the TAC Cup, an under-18 competition in Victoria, Australia. They are based in Preston, representing the northern suburban area of Melbourne.... ) |
30 |
VFL Under 19s
- 1991 – Gary StevensGary Stevens (Australian rules footballer)Gary Stevens is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the Sydney Swans in the Australian Football League .Stevens was the second member of a Waaia family to play in the AFL, after his elder brother Anthony...
(Sydney) - 1990 – Brendan Robertson (Carlton), Clinton Watson (North Melbourne)
- 1989 – Brad Davies (Essendon)
- 1988 – Tim McGrathTim McGrathTim McGrath is a former Australian rules footballer for the North Melbourne Football Club from 1989 to 1991, and the Geelong Football Club from 1992 to 2002, in the Australian Football League , which was known as the Victorian Football League when McGrath made his debut for North Melbourne in...
(North Melb) - 1987 – Wayne SchwassWayne SchwassWayne Schwass was an Australian rules football player in the VFL/AFL who debuted in 1988.He is notable as one of only a few New Zealand-born players of Māori heritage in the history of the VFL/AFL....
(North Melb) - 1986 – D. Ross (North Melb)
- 1985 – Frank Zocalli (Essendon)
- 1984 – Tony LiberatoreTony LiberatoreAnthony "Tony" Liberatore is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Footscray in the Australian Football League ....
(North Melb) - 1983 – Greg HealyGreg HealyGreg Healy is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Melbourne in the VFL/AFL. His brother Gerard was a Brownlow Medallist....
(Melbourne) - 1982 – Les BamblettLes BamblettLes Bamblett is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne and Footsray in the Victorian Football League ....
(Melbourne) - 1981 – Adrian BattistonAdrian BattistonAdrian Battiston is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne and the Sydney Swans in the Victorian Football League ....
(Melbourne) - 1980 – Peter Lane (Richmond)
- 1979 – P. Banks (Collingwood)
- 1978 – A. McPhie (Fitzroy), Stephen Simpson (North Melb)
- 1977 – Darren WilliamsDarren Williams (Australian rules footballer)Darren Williams is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the VFL during the 1980s.After winning a Morrish Medal for his performance for Essendon in the under-19s, he made his senior debut in 1979. At the season's end he went to Western Australia where he played with East...
(Essendon) - 1976 – C. Jamieson (Richmond), Jack Di Natale (Footscray)
- 1975 – B. Jones (South Melb)
- 1974 – Jack Di Natale (Footscray), R. Bruerton (South Melb), Phillip Friedman (Melbourne)
- 1973 – R. Bruerton (South Melb)
- 1972 – Ian Kilmartin (North Melb), Vin CatoggioVin CatoggioVincenzo "Vin" Catoggio is a former Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League.He was noted for his outrageous afro haircut and because of this was considered one of the real characters of the game...
(Carlton) - 1971 – Tim O'Malley (Carlton)
- 1970 – Ken MarksKen MarksKen Marks is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Footscray in the Victorian Football League .Marks started his league career at Fitzroy and was a Morrish Medal winner in the 1970 VFL Under 19's competition. A rover, he never played a senior game for Fitzroy...
(Fitzroy) - 1969 – K. Gehling (Richmond)
- 1968 – Paul CalleryPaul CalleryPaul Callery is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Melbourne, St Kilda and South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League during the 1970s....
(Melbourne) - 1967 – M. Gale (Carlton)
- 1966 – B. Wright (Fitzroy)
- 1965 – R. Petherbridge (St Kilda)
- 1964 – Peter Gowans (North Melb)
- 1963 – J. Schram (Geelong)
- 1962 – Kevin EganKevin EganKevin Egan is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the VFL during the 1960s.Egan was a good youth player at Essendon and won a Morrish Medal in 1962 for his performances in the Under-19s. The following season he made his first senior appearance and he played in their...
(Essendon) - 1961 – Terry Johnston (Melbourne), J. McGowan (South Melb)
- 1960 – G. Ryan (Footscray)
- 1959 – D. Glassenbury (Fitzroy)
VFL Thirds
- 1958 – Norman Bowler (North Melb)
- 1957 – P. O'Reilly (South Melb)
- 1956 – Garry Rasmussen (Hawthorn)
- 1955 – Maurice Job (Carlton)
- 1954 – Alf Clarke (Carlton)
- 1953 – Richard PrattRichard Pratt (Australian businessman)Richard J. Pratt was a prominent Australian businessman, chairman of the privately-owned company Visy Industries, and a leading figure of Melbourne society. In the year before his death Pratt was Australia's fourth-richest person, with a personal fortune valued at billion...
(Carlton) - 1952 – Peter McPhee (Footscray)
- 1951 – F. Williams (Hawthorn)
- 1950 – Noel Alford (North Melb)
- 1949 – A. Harbrow (St Kilda)
- 1948 – Ray Harvey (Melbourne)
- 1947 – Alan DaleAlan Dale (footballer)Alan Dale was an Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League .-External links:* -References:*...
(Essendon)