Jim W. Brown

Jim Brown
Jim Brown
Personal information
Full name	Jim Brown
Date of birth	18 December 1926
Date of death	8 April 2014 (aged 87)
Original team(s)	Ivanhoe
Height	187 cm (6 ft 2 in)
Weight	84 kg (185 lb)
Playing career1
Years	Club
1945, 1947	Fitzroy
	1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1947.
	Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Jim Brown (18 December 1926 – 8 April 2014) was a former Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).^[1]

In 1948 Brown moved to Tasmania and played with New Norfolk in the Tasmanian Football League. He won the William Leitch Medal, the competition Best and Fairest that year.^[2]

^ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 100. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
^ "LEITCH MEDAL WON BY NEW NORFOLK PLAYER". The Mercury. Vol. CLXVIII, no. 24, 280. Tasmania. 4 October 1948. p. 10. Retrieved 22 February 2017 – via National Library of Australia.

[encyc-1] Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 100. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.

[2] "LEITCH MEDAL WON BY NEW NORFOLK PLAYER". The Mercury. Vol. CLXVIII, no. 24, 280. Tasmania. 4 October 1948. p. 10. Retrieved 22 February 2017 – via National Library of Australia.

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