Norman was born in
Paddington, New South Wales in 1912 and was an
Eastern Suburbs junior. He was graded with Easts at seventeen years of age and made his Australian debut two years later at nineteen. Throughout his career he made fifteen state representative appearances for
New South Wales and played in twelve Tests for the
Australia national rugby league team. He is listed on the
Australian Players Register as Kangaroo No. 169. Norman coached
Eastern Suburbs for three seasons from
1950 to
1952. By this time Easts had fallen into the cellar – they had been bottom for the first time in
the 1949 season under
Ray Stehr – and although Norman improved the Tricolours to seventh in 1950 with seven wins and fifth with nine victories (including premiers South Sydney's solitary home-and-away defeat) in
1951, a lapse to eighth in 1952 prevented him keeping the job. Norman died of a short illness on 3 August 1993, 70 days before his 81st birthday. In February 2008, Norman was named in the list of Australia's
100 Greatest Players (1908–2007) which was commissioned by the
NRL and
ARL to celebrate the code's centenary year in Australia. ==References==