Dick Reynolds

Dick Reynolds
Personal information
Full name	Richard Sylvanus Reynolds
Nickname(s)	King Richard
Date of birth	(1915-06-20)20 June 1915
Date of death	2 September 2002(2002-09-02) (aged 87)
Original team(s)	Woodlands (EDFL)
Height	179 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Weight	82 kg (181 lb)
Position(s)	Midfielder/Small forward
Playing career1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1933–1951	Essendon	320 (442)
Representative team honours
Years	Team	Games (Goals)
	Victoria	19 (19)
Coaching career3
Years	Club	Games (W–L–D)
1939–1960	Essendon (VFL)	415 (275–134–6)
1961–1963	West Torrens (SANFL)	58 (37–19–2)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1951. 3 Coaching statistics correct as of 1963.
Career highlights
4× Essendon Premiership player: (1942, 1946, 1949, 1950) 3× Brownlow Medal: (1934, 1937, 1938) 7× W. S. Crichton Medal: (1934, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1942, 1943) Essendon captain: (1939–1950) Essendon leading goalkicker 1943 Australian Football Hall of Fame Legend 1996 AFL Team of the Century (half forward flank) Essendon Team of the Century (rover)
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Richard Sylvannus Reynolds (20 June 1915 – 2 September 2002) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Essendon Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Reynolds is one of four footballers to have won three Brownlow Medals, with the others being Haydn Bunton Sr., Bob Skilton and Ian Stewart. Revered by Essendon supporters, he was often referred to simply as "King Richard".^[1]