Verdun Howell

Verdun John Howell was born on 16 June 1937 and is a former Australian rules footballer who played senior football in Tasmania and in the VFL, now the AFL. He played for City-South from 1953 to 1957, helping win the NTFA premierships of 1954 and 1956, and made his VFL debut with St Kilda in 1958, playing as a half-forward, half-back and later full-back. He won the 1959 Brownlow Medal, tying with Bob Skilton, an award given retrospectively in 1989 after the countback rule was removed. He was vice-captain to Darrel Baldock, later worked as an assistant coach at Richmond and coached Claremont and Launceston, and was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 2016.