Norman Ware (5 March 1911 – 26 August 2003) 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 in the
Victorian Football League
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(VFL).
A scrupulously fair, clever and unusually pacy ruckman for
Footscray, Ware is the only captain-coach to have won the
Brownlow Medal
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, and is likely to remain so indefinitely, as it would be almost impossible for a captain of an AFL team to act as a coach today, and even so, playing coaches are prohibited under salary cap regulations (instituted in 1987) in order to prevent wealthier clubs from circumventing the restrictions of the salary cap and salary floor.
He was recruited from
Sale. His brother
Wally
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* '' La Wally'', an opera by Alfredo Catalani
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played for
Hawthorn
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.
In 2001 Ware was inducted into the
Australian Football Hall of Fame
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.
Career highlights
* Brownlow Medal: 1941
* Footscray Best and Fairest: 1934, 1937, 1938, 1940, 1941, 1942
* Footscray captain: 1940
* Footscray Team of the Century
* Victorian representative (10 games, 6 goals)
References
External links
*
Australian Football Hall of Fame
1911 births
2003 deaths
Western Bulldogs players
Western Bulldogs coaches
Australian Football Hall of Fame inductees
Brownlow Medal winners
Charles Sutton Medal winners
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia)
Sale Football Club players
People from Sale, Victoria
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