Legacy
In 2006, the AFL announced that Evans was to have an abdominal tumor removed and that, due to his ill-health he was retiring. He died of abdominal cancer on 9 March 2007.
He was posthumously awarded membership in the administrator's Australian Football Hall of Fame in 2007.
The Ron Evans Medal was created in his name, awarded to the AFL Rising Star of that year, beginning in 2007, when it was inaugurally presented to Joel Selwood of the Geelong Football Club.
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
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