The Fitzroy Junior Football Club, together with parent Phil Davis and commitee member Tom Curnow, are proud to announce a small, yet firm, step towards achieving national reconciliation goals through the creation of the FJFC Indigenous Round Medal.

Beginning in Season 2012, an Indigenous Round Medal will be awarded to an outstanding player from the Fitzroy team and the opposing team in each Indigenous round match, ie two medals per game for all teams.

The medals will be inscribed with five qualities deemed to represent those typical of Indigenous Australians and ones that we hope all players will strive to emulate and attain. Those qualities are:

ENDURANCE            TENACITY          COURAGE            LOYALTY         PRIDE

The Fitzroy Football Club has a strong and deep link with Indigenous players that we believe we should recognise, commemorate and promote for the future of our club. The "...first known Aborigine to play AFL football..." played for Fitzroy (Joe Johnson).
Additionally, the first Indigenous Victorian state representative was also a Fitzroy player, a young man who would go on be a prominent figure in securing Indigenous rights and who became the Governor of South Australia, the Reverend Doug Nichols.

There were 13 Indigenous players for Fitzroy in the club's history. We have a direct geographical connection - we train and play on Wurundjeri land, part of the Kulin Nation, whose men played Marngrook on the same land for hundreds, perhaps thousands of years before us. Additionally, Ramsden St Oval is within sight of a great corroboree place where the pre-cursor to our game was played over centuries, generation after generation.