Paul Meldrum (born 13 September 1960) is a former
Australian rules
Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified ...
footballer who played for
Carlton in the
Victorian Football League
The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football competition in Australia operated by the Australian Football League (AFL) as a second-tier, regional, semi-professional competition. It includes teams from clubs based in east ...
(VFL) during the 1980s.
Meldrum was a versatile footballer could play anywhere on the ground, and made his debut for Carlton in
1982
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. He played 158 games for the club, including playing in their winning
1987 VFL Grand Final team. In the
same year Meldrum finished equal 3rd in the
Brownlow Medal
The Charles Brownlow Trophy, better known as the Brownlow Medal (and informally as Charlie), is awarded to the best and fairest player in the Australian Football League (AFL) during the home-and-away season, as determined by votes cast by the f ...
count and represented
Victoria
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in
interstate football.
References
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1960 births
Living people
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
Carlton Football Club players
Carlton Football Club premiership players
VFL/AFL premiership players