Bert Deacon

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**Bert Deacon**
Personal information

Birth	November 8, 1922,
Recruited from	Preston, Victoria
Height and weight	180cm, 79kg
Playing career¹
Debut	Round 7, 1942, Carlton vs. Footscray, at Yarraville Oval
Team(s)	Carlton (1942-1951) 106 games, 7 goals
¹ Statistics to end of 1951 season
Career highlights
1947 Brownlow Medal winner

Bert Deacon (November 8, 1922 - 1973) was an Australian rules footballer who played for Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He is remembered for being Carlton's first ever Brownlow Medal winner.

A centre half back, Deacon began his league career in 1942. He was a premiership player for Carlton in 1945 and 1947, the latter in a year which he won both a Brownlow Medal and Carlton best and fairest. The previous season Deacon had finished fourth in the Brownlow Medal count but this time around finished on top, thus becoming the Carlton's inaugural winner of the award.

Deacon left Carlton after the 1951 season and became captain-coach for Preston in the VFA, the club where he had played for prior to being recruited by Carlton. He later served as Carlton vice-president and club secretary.

He is the centre half back in Carlton's official 'Team of the Century'.

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1949 VFL season

v • d • e 1945 Carlton Blues Premiership Players

Captain: Chitty \| Baird \| Baxter \| Bennett \| Brown \| Clark \| Collins \| Deacon \| Hands \| McInnes \| McLean \| Mooring \| Price \| Sanger \| Savage \| Turner \| Way \| Williams \| Wines Coach: Bentley

v • d • e 1947 Carlton Blues Premiership Players

Captain: Henfry \| Bailey \| Baird \| Baxter \| Bennett \| Brown \| Clark \| Conley \| Davies \| Deacon \| Fitzgibbon \| Garby \| Green \| Greenshields \| Grieve \| Hands \| Howell \| Stafford \| Turner \| Williams Coach: Bentley