Norm Smith | |||
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Personal information | |||
Full name | Norman Smith | ||
Date of birth | 1 October 1946 | ||
Date of death | 21 February 2019 | (aged 72)||
Place of death | Canberra | ||
Original team(s) | Strathmerton | ||
Height | 183 cm (6 ft 0 in) | ||
Weight | 86 kg (190 lb) | ||
Position(s) | Ruck-rover | ||
Playing career1 | |||
Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
1967 | Hawthorn | 5 (1) | |
1970–1971 | Strathmerton | ||
1972–1974 | Tatura | ||
1975–1976 | Lemnos | ||
1977–1978 | Corowa | ||
1979 | Belconnen | ||
1980–1982 | West Canberra | ||
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1982. | |||
Career highlights | |||
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Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com |
Norman "Norm" Smith (1 October 1946 – 21 February 2019) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Smith, a ruck-rover, played his early senior football at Strathmerton in the Murray Football League and won the league's best and fairest medal in 1966.[1][2] The following year he made five VFL appearances for Hawthorn, then spent time away from the game on national service, before returning to Strathmerton in 1970.[3][4]
In 1971, Smith started playing in the Goulburn Valley Football League, where he won back-to-back Morrison Medals, with Tatura in 1974 and Lemnos in 1975.[4][5]
His two-year stint coaching Corowa, in 1977 and 1978, was the final two seasons that the club played in the Ovens & Murray Football League, before merging with Rutherglen.[4]
In 1979 he coached Belconnen to its first Australian Capital Territory Football League grand final, which they lost to Ainslie.[6][7] From 1980 to 1982, Smith played at West Canberra.[4] He was coach in the last of those years and again for the 1985 season, in a non-playing capacity.[8][9] In 1986 he was non-playing coach of the Belconnen Magpies, formed by a merger between Belconnen and West Canberra.[9]
Brent Smith, Norman's son, also played football in Canberra and in 1991 won the Mulrooney Medal.[10]