Martin William Norton ( Muhvich; November 11, 1901 – October 8, 1977) was a player in the

National Football League The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league that consists of 32 teams, divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC). The NFL is one of the ...

. He first played for the

Minneapolis Marines The Minneapolis Marines were an early professional football team that existed from 1905 until 1924. The team was later resurrected from 1929 to 1930 under the Minneapolis Red Jackets name. The Marines were owned locally by Minneapolitans John Dunn ...

during the 1922 NFL season. After a season away from the NFL, he re-joined the Marines for the 1924 NFL season. The next season, he played with the Green Bay Packers. He was also a member of the team for the next three seasons, but did not see any playing time during the season. Norton was captain of the football, basketball and tennis teams while he attended Central High School in Minneapolis (class of 1921). He coached the Minneapolis Globe Trotters basketball team in the 1920s. In 1925, he was named the coach of the basketball team at Ripon College. He was also an assistant coach to

Carl Doehling Carl Herman Doehling (April 17, 1896 – May 21, 1985) was an American football coach. He was the head football coach at the Ripon College in Ripon, Wisconsin from 1924 to 1955. During his 32-year reign, Doehling coached teams to 15 conference ch ...

on Ripon's football team. Norton also played on the Minneapolis Whiz Bangs basketball team (also serving as captain), a basketball team from Appleton, Wisconsin, a football team from Ironwood, Michigan, and the Muscatine Muskies basketball team.

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