Norm McLeod (Australian footballer)

Norm McLeod
Personal information
Full name Norman Robert McLeod
Date of birth (1879-04-13)13 April 1879
Place of birth Ballarat, Victoria
Date of death 3 April 1913(1913-04-03) (aged 33)
Place of death Cohuna, Victoria
Original team(s) Scotch College
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1897–98 Melbourne 18 (0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1898.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Norman Robert McLeod (13 April 1879 – 3 April 1913) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

McLeod, a defender, joined Melbourne from Scotch College at the start of the 1897 VFL season[2] and played in 14 of the 17 senior games that season. The following year he made four appearances before being dropped from the team and he did not play senior football again.

He died in April 1913 after being accidentally shot in the head shortly after being appointed as manager of the Union Bank branch in Cohuna.[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. 594. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  2. ^ "THE LEAGUE CLUBS". The Argus. No. 15, 860. Victoria, Australia. 1 May 1897. p. 11.
  3. ^ "BANK TRAGEDY". The Argus. No. 20, 743. Victoria, Australia. 16 January 1913. p. 14.


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