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

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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

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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

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played for

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. In 2001 Ware was inducted into the

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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)

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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 {{AFL-bio-1911-stub