Peter Crimmins Medal
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The Peter Crimmins Medal is an Australian rules football
award given to the player(s) from the Hawthorn Football Club
deemed best and fairest
for the season.
Peter Crimmins
was a rover for Hawthorn, playing 1966-1975. He died of cancer just days after the club's 1976 premiership win.
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Australian rules football
Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...
award given to the player(s) from the Hawthorn Football Club
Hawthorn Football Club
The Hawthorn Football Club, nicknamed the Hawks, is a professional Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League . The club, founded in 1902, is the youngest of the Victorian-based teams in the AFL. The team play in Brown & Gold vertically striped guernseys...
deemed best and fairest
Best and Fairest
Best and Fairest is the term commonly used in Australian sport to describe the player adjudged to have had the best performance in a game or over a season for a given sporting club or competition while not receiving a suspension for misconduct or breaching the rules during that season.In the...
for the season.
Peter Crimmins
Peter Crimmins
Peter Crimmins was a rover for the Hawthorn Football Club in the VFL, playing 176 games and kicking 231 goals from 1966 to 1975. He was an inspirational player and captain from 1974 who wore number 5. He was a member of the Hawks' 1971 premiership team.At the completion of the 1974 VFL season...
was a rover for Hawthorn, playing 1966-1975. He died of cancer just days after the club's 1976 premiership win.
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