The Mitchell Medal was the
best and fairest
In Australian sport, the best and fairest award recognises the player(s) adjudged to have had the best performance in a game or over a season for a given sporting club or competition. The awards are sometimes dependent on not receiving a suspensi ...
award for the
Fitzroy Football Club
The Fitzroy Football Club is an Australian rules football club currently competing in the Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA). Formed in 1883 to represent the inner-Melbourne municipality of City of Fitzroy, Fitzroy, the club is base ...
in the
Australian Football League
The Australian Football League (AFL) is the pre-eminent professional sports, professional competition of Australian rules football. It was originally named the Victorian Football League (VFL) and was founded in 1896 as a breakaway competition ...
(AFL).
Percy Mitchell was a long-serving club administrator and life member and the award was named after him in 1987.
Recipients
Multiple winners
References
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Australian Football League awards
Fitzroy Football Club
Awards disestablished in 1996
Australian rules football-related lists
1897 establishments in Australia
1996 disestablishments in Australia