The Champion Of The Colony was, prior to the Brownlow Medal, the most prestigious individual award in Australian rules football in Victoria. The Chas Brownlow Trophy, better known as the Brownlow Medal, is an annual medal regarded as the most prestigious award for individual players. ... Australian rules football at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. ... Motto: Peace and Prosperity Other Australian states and territories Capital Melbourne Governor HE Mr John Landy Premier Steve Bracks (ALP) Area 237,629 km² (6th)  - Land 227,416 km²  - Water 10,213 km² (4. ...

The first award was presented in 1858 and again annually until 1945, despite the Brownlow commencing in 1924 and Victoria ceasing to be a colony in 1901. It was awarded based on votes from Melbourne's leading football journalists. 1858 is a common year starting on Friday. ... 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1924 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1901 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... The City of Melbourne Melbourne is the capital and largest city of the state of Victoria, and the second largest city in Australia (after Sydney), with a population of 3. ...

Winners included:

• Tom Wills (1859, 1865 and 1872)
• Henry Harrison (1862-63, 1866-67 and 1869)
• George Coulthard (1876-77 and 1879)
• Peter Burns (1885 and 1891)
• John Worrall (1887 and 1890)
• Albert Thurgood (1893-94 and 1901)
• Vic Cumberland (1904 and 1913)
• Dave McNamara (1907 and 1914)
• Dick Lee (1910 and 1915)
• Roy Cazaly (1920)
• Syd Coventry (1927 and 1929)
• Haydn Bunton, Sr. (1932)
• Gordon Coventry (1933)
• Laurie Nash (1934-35)
• Dick Reynolds (1937 and 1939)
• Jack Dyer (1940 and 1942-43)
• Norm Smith (1944)

Thomas Wentworth Wills was an Australian sportsman who is credited along with Henry Harrison as one of the inventors of Australian rules football. ... Roy Cazaly was an Australian rules football player famous his high marks, and for giving rise to the phrase Up there Cazaly. Cazaly was born in Albert Park, a suburb of Melbourne on January 13, 1893. ... Gordon Coventry was an Australian Rules Football player who played the full-forward position for the Collingwood Football Club in the great Collingwood teams of the 1920s and 1930s. ... Dick Reynolds (June 20, 1915 - September 2, 2002) was an Australian Rules player and coach. ... John Raymond Dyer (November 13, 1913 - August 23, 2003), better known as Jack Dyer, was one of the best-known figures of Australian Rules football, as an outstanding player, as a coach, and later in the broadcast media. ...

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