The Douglas Wilkie Medal was an award presented to those who did the least for Australian rules football, in the best and fairest manner.
An accolade presented by the Anti-Football League, it was named after Douglas Wilkie, a Sun News-Pictorial columnist who wrote for the paper during the years 1946–1986.
It was Douglas Wilkie who first suggested the notion of an Anti-Football League, which was brought into being by Keith Dunstan.
The League existed as a response to the overwhelming obsession of football by the Melbourne public.
Following the suggestion of Wilkie's fellow writer Cyril Pearl, who wished to burn a football to express his disaffection for the game, the winner must destroy a football in a unique and creative manner on receiving their medal.