The Rothmans Medal was the premier individual award in the New South Wales Rugby League and Brisbane Rugby League competitions, and later in the Australian Rugby League, which was given to the player voted by referees as the best and fairest in those competitions for the season, first awarded in 1968.
The Rothmans Medal was the first official player-of-the-year award to be established in rugby league in Australia.
The medal was sponsored by Rothmans International, a tobacco production company.
This is the same basic format as the modern day Dally M, except that the votes are now determined by the media.
In 1997, the Rothmans Medal in New South Wales became known as the Provan-Summons medal, because all tobacco advertising and sponsorship was prohibited in Australia in 1992, under the Tobacco Advertising Prohibition Act 1992; the medal then disappeared altogether in 1998 with the merger of the Australian Rugby League and the Australian Super League.