Norman Ware

Norm Ware
Personal information
Full nameNorman Ware
Date of birth5 March 1911
Date of death26 August 2003 (aged 92)
Original teamSale
Height/Weight193 cm / 91 kg
Position(s)Ruckman
Playing career1
YearsClubGames (Goals)
1932–1946Footscray200 (220)
Coaching career
YearsClubGames (W–L–D)
1941–1942Footscray33 (20–13–0)
1 Playing statistics correct to end of 1946 season.

Norman "Norm" Ware (5 March 1911 – 26 August 2003[1]) was an Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

A scrupulously fair, clever and unusually pacy ruckman for Footscray, Ware is the only captain-coach to have won the Brownlow Medal, and is likely to remain so indefinitely, as it would be almost impossible for a captain of an AFL team to act as a coach today, and even so, playing coaches are prohibited under salary cap regulations (instituted in 1987) in order to prevent wealthier clubs from circumventing the restrictions of the salary cap and salary floor.

He was recruited from Sale. His brother Wally played for Hawthorn.[2]

In 2001 Ware was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame.

Career highlights

References

  1. ↑ Lines, Chris (25 August 2003). "Norm Ware dies aged 92". The Age.
  2. ↑ "Sale Footballer For Footscray". Gippsland Times (Vic.: National Library of Australia). 2 November 1931. p. 3. Retrieved 16 March 2015.

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