Norm Potter (1893–1951) was an Australian professional
rugby league
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footballer in the 1910s and '20s. A
Queensland state and
Australia national representative front-row forward, he was one of Queensland's early stalwart star players, making forty-four state appearances in an unbroken representative career between 1918 and 1927.
Career
Potter's early club career was with
Wests Brisbane. In 1918 he was selected and captained the first post-
World War I
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Queensland state side. He toured New Zealand with the
Australian representative side in 1919 making a sole Test appearance. He played a match for Queensland against the
1920 Great Britain Lions tourists and went on to make six further Test appearances, playing at front-row in all three Tests of both the 1920 and the 1924 domestic
Ashes series
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against
Great Britain
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. He made the 1921-22
Kangaroo tour of Great Britain playing in ten tour matches but he was kept out of the Test line-ups by the front-row pairing of
Clarrie Prentice
Clarence Warwick Prentice (1 July 1891 – 10 March 1948) was an Australian rugby union and rugby league footballer who represented his country at both sports - a dual-code rugby international. He is the younger brother of fellow Wests player W ...
and
Bill Schultz. In 1922 he was captain of the first ever Queensland side to beat New South Wales in the annual interstate series. After retiring as a player he became a first-grade coach in the Brisbane competition.
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References
Bibliography
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Whiticker, Alan & Hudson, Glen (2006) ''The Encyclopedia of Rugby League Players'', Gavin Allen Publishing, Sydney
* Pollard, Jack (ed) ''Gregory's Guide to Rugby League'' (1965), Grenville Publishing Sydney
Footnotes
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1951 deaths
Australian rugby league players
Australia national rugby league team players
Queensland rugby league team players
History of Queensland
Place of birth missing
1893 births