Norman Henry John Weidner (3 March 1907 – 29 January 1962) was an
Australian rules football
Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...
er who played with
Richmond in the
Victorian Football League (VFL).
Family
The son of Williamstown and Prahran footballer, Alfred Christian Weidner (1880-1959), and Ada Alice Weidner (1880-1963), née Whitmore, Norman Henry John Weidner was born at
Warragul, Victoria on 3 March 1907.
He married Violet Camelia Rich (1908-1982) in 1935.
His cousin,
Alexander Leslie "Les" Gallagher (1904-1973), also played VFL football for Richmond.
Football
Weidner was a half forward flanker from
Warragul who kicked at least 25 goals every season from 1928 to 1931 and was Richmond's second top goal-kicker in the first of those years.
[AFL Tables.]
He appeared in Richmond's 1927, 1928 and 1929 grand final losses and managed to kick two goals in both the
1928
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and
1929 Grand Finals.
[ In total, he kicked 15 goals from the nine finals that he played during his career.][ Richmond broke through for a premiership in 1932 but Weidner wasn't part of the success, having played his last game for the club in round 10.][
He represented the 1928 Victorian interstate team which defeated South Australia in Melbourne by nine points.]['' The Advertiser']
"Inter-State Football"
27 August 1928, p. 10
Death
He died at Ventnor, Victoria on 29 January 1962.
Notes
References
* Hogan P: ''The Tigers Of Old'', Richmond FC, (Melbourne), 1996.
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1907 births
1962 deaths
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
Australian Rules footballers: place kick exponents
Warragul Football Club players
Richmond Football Club players
People from Warragul
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