Ron Branton

Ron Branton
Personal information
Full name Ronald Neil Branton
Date of birth (1933-06-10)10 June 1933
Place of birth Maryborough, Victoria, Australia
Date of death 30 May 2024(2024-05-30) (aged 90)
Original team(s) Maryborough
Height 170 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Weight 71 kg (157 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1953–1962 Richmond 170 (171)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1962.
Career highlights
  • Richmond Best and Fairest 1960, 1961, 1962
  • Richmond Leading Goalkicker 1953, 1954
  • Richmond Captain 1960-1962
  • Interstate Games:- 2
  • Richmond - Hall of Fame - inducted 2006
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Ronald Branton (10 June 1933 – 30 May 2024) was an Australian rules football player who played in the VFL between 1953 and 1962 for the Richmond Football Club.[1][2]

A rover from Maryborough, he won the best first year player in 1953, as well as the leading goalkicker award in his first two seasons. He is the only player to have won the Jack Dyer Medal in three consecutive years.[3]

Branton played with Myrtleford in the Ovens & Murray Football League from 1963 to 1965 as their captain and coach, kicking 80 goals during that time.

Branton then played two seasons with Klng Valley Football Club in the Ovens & King Football League in 1966 and 1967, kicking 49 goals during that time.

  1. ^ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 90. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  2. ^ Hogan, Paul (1996). The Tigers Of Old. Melbourne, Victoria: Richmond FC. ISBN 978-0-646187-48-8.
  3. ^ "Vale Ron Branton". richmondfc.com.au. 3 June 2024. Retrieved 4 June 2024.