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 Ben 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.

[edit] Winners

TAC Cup

Year	Player/s	Team/s	Votes
2009	Anton Woods	(Northern Knights)	24
2008	Farran Priest; Jaryd Blair	(Murray Bushrangers / Gippsland Power)	18
2007	Matthew Kreuzer	(Northern Knights)	19
2006	Fortunato Caruso	(Calder Cannons)	22
2005	Fortunato Caruso	(Calder Cannons)	22
2004	Matthew Bate	(Eastern Ranges)	21
2003	Mungara Brown	(Northern Knights)	25
2002	Luke Shackleton	(Tassie Mariners)	22
2001	David Rodan	(Calder Cannons)	29
2000	David Rodan	(Calder Cannons)	25
1999	Matthew Stolarczyk	(Gippsland Power)	21
1998	Lenny Hayes	(NSW/ACT Rams)	21
1997	Derek Murray	(Murray Bushrangers)	20
1996	Nathan G. Brown	(Bendigo Pioneers)	21
1995	Paul Hood	(Geelong Falcons)	26
1994	Gary Moorcroft	(Northern Knights)	17
1993	Dean Watson	(Southern Stingrays)	25
1992	Brad Smith	(Northern Knights)	30

VFL Under 19s

• 1991 - G.Stevens (Sydney)
• 1990 - B.Roberson (Carlton), C.Watson (North Melbourne)
• 1989 - [Brad Davies[1] (Essendon)
• 1988 - Tim McGrath (North Melb)
• 1987 - Wayne Schwass (North Melb)
• 1986 - D. Ross (North Melb)
• 1985 - F. Zoccali (Essendon)
• 1984 - Tony Liberatore (North Melb)
• 1983 - Greg Healy (Melbourne)
• 1982 - L. Bamblett (Melbourne)
• 1981 - A. Battiston (Melbourne)
• 1980 - P. Lane (Richmond)
• 1979 - P. Banks (Collingwood)
• 1978 - A. McPhie (Fitzroy), S. Simpson (North Melb)
• 1977 - D. Williams (Essendon)
• 1976 - C. Jamieson (Richmond), J. Di Natale (Footscray)
• 1975 - B. Jones (South Melb)
• 1974 - J. Di Natale (Footscray), R. Bruerton (South Melb), P. Friedman (Melbourne)
• 1973 - R. Bruerton (South Melb)
• 1972 - I. Kilmartin (North Melb), Vin Catoggio (Carlton)
• 1971 - T. O'Malley (Carlton)
• 1970 - K. Marks (Fitzroy)
• 1969 - K. Gehling (Richmond)
• 1968 - Paul Callery (Melbourne)
• 1967 - M. Gale (Carlton)
• 1966 - B. Wright (Fitzroy)
• 1965 - R. Petherbridge (St Kilda)
• 1964 - P. Gowans (North Melb)
• 1963 - J. Schram (Geelong)
• 1962 - Kevin Egan (Essendon)
• 1961 - T. Johnston (Melbourne), J. McGowan (South Melb)
• 1960 - G. Ryan (Footscray)
• 1959 - D. Glassenbury (Fitzroy)

VFL Thirds

• 1958 - N. Bowler (North Melb)
• 1957 - P. O'Reilly (South Melb)
• 1956 - G. Rasmussen (Hawthorn)
• 1955 - M. Job (Carlton)
• 1954 - A. Clarke (Carlton)
• 1953 - Richard Pratt (Carlton)
• 1952 - P. McPhee (Footscray)
• 1951 - F. Williams (Hawthorn)
• 1950 - N. Alford (North Melb)
• 1949 - A. Harbrow (St Kilda)
• 1948 - R. Harvey (Melbourne)
• 1947 - A. Dale (Essendon)

[edit] External links

• Un-Fortunato Caruso, short bloke ignored by AFL
• afl.com.au - Morrish Medal
• TAC Cup Morrish Medallists

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