1965 Brownlow Medal

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{{Infobox award

| name = 1965 Brownlow Medal

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| holder_label = Winner

| holder = Noel Teasdale ({{AFL NM}})
Ian Stewart ({{AFL StK}})
20 votes

| network = Seven Network

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| previous = 1964

| main = Brownlow Medal

| next = 1966

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The 1965 Brownlow Medal was the 38th year the award was presented to the player adjudged the fairest and best player during the Victorian Football League (VFL) home and away season.{{cite book|title=AFL Record Season Guide 2009|year=2009|editor=Lovett, Michael|publisher=Slattery Media Group|location=Docklands, Victoria|pages=496|isbn=978-0-9805162-6-5}} Noel Teasdale of the North Melbourne Football Club and Ian Stewart of the St Kilda Football Club both won the medal by polling twenty votes during the 1965 VFL season.{{cite web|title=1965 Brownlow Medal|url=http://afltables.com/afl/brownlow/brownlow1965.html|publisher=AFL Tables|access-date=6 November 2016}}

Under the tie-breaker rules in place in 1965, Stewart was originally the outright winner: he and Teasdale were tied on 20 votes, but Stewart polled six 3-vote games to Teasdale's five.{{cite web|url=https://afltables.com/afl/brownlow/brownlow_idx.html|title=Brownlow Medal Winners|publisher=AFL Tables|accessdate=23 October 2021}} In 1980, the League removed the tie-break from the rules and allowed for multiple tied winners in the same year; and in 1989 it retrospectively removed the tie-breaker from all previous counts, elevating Teasdale to joint winner of the 1965 medal.{{cite news|newspaper=The Canberra Times|publication-place=Canberra, ACT|title=Medals awarded retrospectively|date=6 April 1989|page=18}}