Question: The 1971 Brownlow Medal was the 44th year the award was presented to the player adjudged the fairest and best player during the Victorian Football League (VFL) home and away season, which former Australian rules footballer, who represented St Kilda and Richmond in the VFL, of the Richmond Football Club won the medal by polling twenty-one votes during the 1971 VFL season?

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1955 Brownlow Medal: The 1955 Brownlow Medal was the 28th year the award was presented to the player adjudged the fairest and best player during the Victorian Football League (VFL) home and away season.  Fred Goldsmith of the South Melbourne Football Club won the medal by polling twenty-one votes during the 1955 VFL season.

1952 Brownlow Medal: The 1952 Brownlow Medal was the 25th year the award was presented to the player adjudged the fairest and best player during the Victorian Football League (VFL) home and away season.  Bill Hutchison of the Essendon Football Club and Roy Wright of the Richmond Football Club both won the medal by polling twenty-one votes during the 1952 VFL season.

1966 Brownlow Medal: The 1966 Brownlow Medal was the 39th year the award was presented to the player adjudged the fairest and best player during the Victorian Football League (VFL) home and away season.  Ian Stewart of the St Kilda Football Club won the medal by polling twenty-one votes during the 1966 VFL season.

Ian Stewart (Australian rules footballer): Ian Harlow Stewart (born 30 July 1943) is a former Australian rules footballer who represented St Kilda and Richmond in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1960s and 1970s.  He later coached South Melbourne and Carlton and was an administrator at St Kilda.

1965 Brownlow Medal: 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.  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.

1950 Brownlow Medal: The 1950 Brownlow Medal was the 23rd year the award was presented to the player adjudged the fairest and best player during the Victorian Football League (VFL) home and away season.  Allan Ruthven of the Fitzroy Football Club won the medal by polling twenty-one votes during the 1950 VFL season.

1961 Brownlow Medal: The 1961 Brownlow Medal was the 34th year the award was presented to the player adjudged the fairest and best player during the Victorian Football League (VFL) home and away season.  John James of the Carlton Football Club won the medal by polling twenty-one votes during the 1961 VFL season.

1996 Brownlow Medal: The 1996 Brownlow Medal was the 69th year the award was presented to the player adjudged the fairest and best player during the Australian Football League (AFL) home and away season.  Michael Voss of the Brisbane Bears and James Hird of the Essendon Football Club both won the medal by polling twenty-one votes during the 1996 AFL season.  Corey McKernan of the North Melbourne Football Club polled the same number of votes as Voss and Hird, but due to a tribunal suspension during the year, he was deemed ineligible to win the award.  This caused some to call for the rules to be changed to allow suspended players to still be eligible.  The eligibility rules have remained the same since then, relying on the "fairest" section of fairest and best to continue to exclude suspended players from being able to win the award.  McKernan went on to be a member of North Melbourne's 1996 AFL Grand Final winning team, something that both Voss and Hird said that they would prefer over winning the medal.

1971 Brownlow Medal: The 1971 Brownlow Medal was the 44th year the award was presented to the player adjudged the fairest and best player during the Victorian Football League (VFL) home and away season.  Ian Stewart of the Richmond Football Club won the medal by polling twenty-one votes during the 1971 VFL season.

1987 Brownlow Medal: The 1987 Brownlow Medal was the 60th year the award was presented to the player adjudged the fairest and best player during the Victorian Football League (VFL) home and away season.  Tony Lockett of the St Kilda Football Club and John Platten of the Hawthorn Football Club both won the medal by polling twenty votes during the 1987 VFL season.

Supporting paragraphs: 1971 Brownlow Medal Ian Stewart (Australian rules footballer)
Answer: Ian Harlow Stewart