Jack Norman

Jack Norman
Personal information
Full name John Norman
Date of birth (1909-08-02)2 August 1909
Place of birth Newport, Wales
Date of death 23 March 1994(1994-03-23) (aged 84)
Original team(s) Brunswick
Height 188 cm (6 ft 2 in)
Weight 89 kg (196 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1938 Fitzroy 01 0(1)
1940–41, 45–46 Preston (VFA) 52 (24)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1938.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

John Norman (2 August 1909 – 23 March 1994) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

Family

The eldest son of Norwegian-born Jonas Mattias Elija Svehaug (1886–1968) and Sarah Ann Curran (1886–1968), John Svehaug was born in Newport, Wales (the city of his mother's birth) on 2 August 1909. The family took the anglicised surname Norman when they emigrated to Australia in 1914.

He married Stella May Sullivan in 1931.

Football

After a single senior game in three years with Fitzroy, Norman transferred to Preston during the 1939 season[2] where he played either side of his period of service in the Royal Australian Air Force during World War II.[3]

Notes

  1. ^ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 660. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  2. ^ "WILL REVIEW PERMIT". The Argus. No. 28, 940. Victoria, Australia. 25 May 1939. p. 22.
  3. ^ "World War II Roll: John Norman". Department of Veterans Affairs.
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