The Syd Barker Medal is awarded to the North Melbourne Football Club player who has been judged the best and fairest of the footy season. The award has been given out continuously since 1937. Before then it was known as the Syd Barker Memorial Trophy.
The award is named after Syd Barker who was a popular captain of the North Melbourne Football Club in 1915-1919, 1921 & 1927. He was a brilliant ruckmen of his time, starring in North Melbourne's 1910, 1914, 1915 and 1918 premiership sides, and captaining the famous "Invincibles" side that went undefeated in a record 58 games.
Recipients:
- 2012 Andrew Swallow
- 2011 Daniel Wells and Andrew Swallow
- 2010 Brent Harvey and Brady Rawlings
- 2009 Andrew Swallow
- 2008 Brent Harvey
- 2007 Brent Harvey
- 2006 Brady Rawlings
- 2005 Brent Harvey
- 2004 Brady Rawlings
- 2003 Brent Harvey
- 2002 Adam Simpson
- 2001 Shannon Grant
- 2000 Peter Bell
- 1999 Anthony Stevens
- 1998 Wayne Carey
- 1997 Anthony Stevens
- 1996 Wayne Carey
- 1995 Wayne Schwass
- 1994 Wayne Schwass
- 1993 Wayne Carey
- 1992 Wayne Carey
- 1991 Craig Sholl & Mick Martyn
- 1990 John Longmire
- 1989 Mick Martyn
- 1988 Matthew Larkin
- 1987 Matthew Larkin
- 1986 Jim Krakouer
- 1985 Matthew Larkin
- 1984 Kym Hodgeman
- 1983 Ross Glendinning (Brownlow Medal winner)
- 1982 Ross Glendinning
- 1981 David Dench
- 1980 Keith Greig
- 1979 Gary Dempsey
- 1978 Malcolm Blight (Brownlow Medal winner)
- 1977 David Dench
- 1976 David Dench
- 1975 Barry Davis
- 1974 John Rantall
- 1973 Barry Davis
- 1972 Ken Montgomery
- 1971 David Dench
- 1970 Barry Cable
- 1969 Sam Kekovich
- 1968 John Dugdale
- 1967 Laurie Dwyer
- 1966 Noel Teasdale
- 1965 Noel Teasdale (Brownlow Medal winner)
- 1964 Noel Teasdale
- 1963 Noel Teasdale
- 1962 Bill Serong
- 1961 Laurie Dwyer
- 1960 Allen Aylett
- 1959 Allen Aylett
- 1958 Allen Aylett
- 1957 Bryan Martyn
- 1956 Jack Edwards
- 1955 Bob Brooker
- 1954 John Brady
- 1953 Jack O'Halloran
- 1952 Jock McCorkell
- 1951 Jock Spencer
- 1950 Les Foote
- 1949 Les Foote
- 1948 Dally O'Brien
- 1947 Keith McKenzie
- 1946 Don Condon
- 1945 Les Foote
- 1944 Alan Crawford
- 1943 Don Kemp
- 1942 Jack Allister
- 1941 George Kennedy & Bill Findlay
- 1940 Jim Adamson
- 1939 Sid Dyer
- 1938 Jock Cordner
- 1937 Wally Carter
- 1936 Charlie Skinner
- 1935 Wally Carter
- 1929 Charles J. Cameron
Read more about Syd Barker Medal: Harold Henderson Best Club-Man Award, D. H. Cronin Memorial Trophy
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“The love that kisses with a homicide
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—George Barker (b. 1913)