Allan Ruthven - Career Highlights

Career Highlights

• In 1998 Ruthven was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame.

• On 3 May 2001, Ruthven was named in Fitzroy's Team of the Century, in the forward line.

• In 2007, the Brisbane Lions recognised Ruthven as one of the two greatest players from the era 1927 to 1956. The other player being Haydn Bunton.

Playing career:

• Fitzroy: 1940–1941, 1943–1954 (Games 222; Goals 442; Brownlow votes 97).

Player honors:

• Brownlow Medal: 1950.
• Fitzroy Best and Fairest: 1944, 1945, 1946, 1948, 1949.
• Fitzroy club leading goalkicker: 1944, 1945, 1954.
• Fitzroy captain: 1948, 1950–1954.
• Fitzroy premiership: 1944
• Victorian representative: (17 games, 47 goals)

Coaching record:

• Fitzroy 1952–1954 (57 games, 28 wins, 28 losses, 1 draw).