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{{Short description|Australian sportsman}}
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{{Infobox personsportsperson
| birth_namefullname = Norman Claxton▼
| name = Norman Claxton
| other_namesnickname = Norrie▼
| residence =
▲| other_names = Norrie
| image = NormanClaxtonNorthAdelaide.jpg
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| death_datebirth_date = {{deathBirth date and age|1951|12|5|1877|11|2|df=yyes}}▼
| caption =
| birth_place = [[North Adelaide]], [[South Australia]], Australia▼
| birth_date = 2 November 1877
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1951|12|5|1877|11|2|df=yes}}
▲| birth_place = North Adelaide, South Australia
| death_place = North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia▼
▲| birth_name = Norman Claxton
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▲| death_date = {{death date and age|1951|12|5|1877|11|2|df=y}}
| height_in =
▲| death_place = North Adelaide, South Australia
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| occupation = [[Australian rules football]]er, [[cricket]]er, sports administrator, [[stockbroker]]
| module =
| religion = [[Anglican]]
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| originalteam =
| draftpick =
| debutdate =
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| position = [[Australian rules football positions#Back line|Defender]]
| years1 = 1900–1904
| club1 = {{SANFL NA}}
| games_goals1 = 38 (2)
| careerhighlights = *2x [[List of SANFL premiers|SAFA premiership player]]: [[1900 SAFA Grand Final|1900]], [[1902 SAFA Grand Final|1902]]
* {{SANFL NA}} [[best and fairest]]: 1902
}} ▼
| module2 = {{Infobox cricketer|embed=yes
| batting = Right-handed
| bowling = Right-arm [[fast bowling|fast-medium]]
| role = [[All-rounder]]
| family =
| club1 = [[South Australia cricket team|South Australia]]
| year1 = 1898/99–1909/10
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 39
| runs1 = 2090
| bat avg1 = 29.43
| 100s/50s1 = 1/14
| top score1 = 199*
| deliveries1 = 4521
| wickets1 = 66
| bowl avg1 = 34.42
| fivefor1 = 3
| tenfor1 = 0
| best bowling1 = 5/56
| catches/stumpings1 = 26/–
| date = 11 October
| year = 2023
| source = https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/norman-claxton-4752 ESPNcricinfo
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'''Norman Claxton''' (2 November 1877 – 5 December 1951), was an all-round sportsman from [[South Australia]]. He was a prominent figure in South Australian [[cricket]], [[Australian rules football]], [[baseball]] and [[cycling]] during the early twentieth century, both as a player and later an administrator.▼
 
▲'''Norman Claxton''' (2 November 1877 – 5 December 1951), was an all-round sportsman from [[South Australia]]. He was a prominent figure in South Australian [[cricket]], [[Australian rules football]], [[baseball]], and [[cycle sport|cycling]] during the early twentieth century, both as a player and later an administrator.
 
He represented [[South Australia cricket team|South Australia]] in [[first-class cricket]], playing 39 matches for his state, and finishing his career with 2,090 first-class runs at an average of 29.43. In Australian rules football, he was part of the [[North Adelaide Football Club]] teams that won the [[South Australian National Football League]] in 1900 and 1902. He left a lasting legacy in baseball by donating the [[Claxton Shield]] which bears his name as the trophy for the champion baseball team in Australia. His contributions to baseball led to him being inducted into the [[Baseball Australia Hall of Fame]] in 2005.
 
==Personal and business life==
Claxton was born in [[North Adelaide]], [[South Australia]] on 2 November 1877. He was the son of William Denton Claxton and Hannah (née Parr) Claxton.<ref name="adb">{{cite web | last1 = Hicks | first1 = Neville | last2 = Leopold | first2 = Elisabeth | year = 1981 | url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/claxton-norman-5674 | title= Claxton, Norman (1877–1951) |work=[[Australian Dictionary of Biography]] |location=Canberra |publisher=[[Australian National University]] | accessdateaccess-date= 18 December 2012 }}</ref> He had a half-brother, [[William Claxton (cricketer)|William Claxton]], who was twenty years his senior and who also played [[first-class cricket]].<ref name="caprof"/> He entered the [[Adelaide]] [[stock exchange]] in 1910, and had various business interests. He died on 5 December 1951, having never married. He was survived by two sisters.<ref name="adb"/>▼
Claxton was born in [[North Adelaide]], [[South Australia]] on 2 November 1877. He was the son of William Denton Claxton and
▲Hannah (née Parr) Claxton.<ref name="adb">{{cite web | last1 = Hicks | first1 = Neville | last2 = Leopold | first2 = Elisabeth | year = 1981 | url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/claxton-norman-5674 | title= Claxton, Norman (1877–1951) |work=[[Australian Dictionary of Biography]] |location=Canberra |publisher=[[Australian National University]] | accessdate= 18 December 2012 }}</ref> He had a half-brother, [[William Claxton (cricketer)|William Claxton]], who was twenty years his senior and who also played [[first-class cricket]].<ref name="caprof"/> He entered the Adelaide [[stock exchange]] in 1910, and had various business interests. He died on 5 December 1951, having never married. He was survived by two sisters.<ref name="adb"/>
 
==Cricket career==
Claxton made his first-class cricket debut in April 1899, playing for [[South Australia cricket team|South Australia]] against [[Western Australia cricket team|Western Australia]]. He bowled three overs without taking a wicket, and scored no [[Run (cricket)|runs]] in the match; being bowled out for a [[Duck (cricket)|duck]] in both innings.<ref>{{cite web|url=httphttps://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/5/5141.html |title=Western Australia v South Australia: Other First-Class matches in Australia 1898/99 |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdateaccess-date=18 December 2012}}</ref> He had more success in 1902, scoring 61 and 83 for South Australia against the [[English cricket team in Australia in 1901–02|touring England team]].<ref>{{cite web|url=httphttps://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/5/5864.html |title=South Australia v AC MacLaren's XI: AC MacLaren's XI in Australia 1901/02 |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdateaccess-date=18 December 2012}}</ref> He claimed five [[wicket]]s in an innings on three occasions, during three subsequent appearances. He first achieved the feat in 1903 against [[New South Wales cricket team|New South Wales]]. In the first innings, Claxton took five wickets, and conceded 129 runs (styled 5/129) during his 36 [[Over (cricket)|overs]].<ref>{{cite web|url=httphttps://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/6/6377.html |title=South Australia v New South Wales: Sheffield Shield 1903/04 |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdateaccess-date=18 December 2012}}</ref> He repeated the achievement in the next match, claiming 5/56 against the [[English cricket team in Australia in 1903–04|touring English cricket team]] – the best figures of his career.<ref name="caprof"/><ref>{{cite web|url=httphttps://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/6/6400.html |title=South Australia v Marylebone Cricket Club: Marylebone Cricket Club in Australia 1903/04 |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdateaccess-date=18 December 2012}}</ref><ref name="caprof"/> His next appearance was not until the start of the 1904–05 season, when he claimed 5/130 against [[Victoria cricket team|Victoria]].<ref>{{cite web|url=httphttps://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/6/6626.html |title=South Australia v Victoria: Sheffield Shield 1904/05 |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdateaccess-date=18 December 2012}}</ref>
 
His best season as a batsman was in 1905–06, when he scored 401 runs at an [[Batting average#Cricket (cricket)|average]] of 36.45.<ref name="batbs">{{cite web|url=httphttps://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/15/15866/f_Batting_by_Season.html |title=First-class Batting and Fielding in Each Season by Norman Claxton |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdateaccess-date=18 December 2012}}</ref> He made his highest first-class score during that season, in a match against Victoria. After scoring 67 runs out of South Australia's first innings total of 181, Claxton accumulated 199 runs in the second, [[Carry the bat|carrying his bat]] in the process. South Australia won the match by 120 runs.<ref>{{cite web|url=httphttps://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/6/6920.html |title=Victoria v South Australia: Sheffield Shield 1905/06 |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdateaccess-date=18 December 2012}}</ref> It was the only [[Century (cricket)|century]] of Claxton's first-class career.<ref name="caprof">{{cite web|url=httphttps://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/15/15866/15866.html |title=Player Profile: Norman Claxton |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdateaccess-date=18 December 2012}}</ref> He [[Captain (cricket)|captained]] South Australia in five [[Sheffield Shield]] matches, first doing so against Victoria in 1906.<ref>{{cite web|url=httphttps://www.cricketarchive.com/cgi-bin/player_oracle_reveals_results2.cgi?playernumber=15866&opponentmatch=exact&playername=R&resulttype=All&matchtype=FirstClass&teammatch=exact&startwicket=&homeawaytype=All&opponent=&endwicket=&wicketkeeper=&searchtype=InningsList&endscore=&playermatch=contains&branding=cricketarchive&captain=on&endseason=&startscore=&team=South%20Australia&startseason |title= N Claxton as captain in first-class matches where team is South Australia |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdateaccess-date=18 December 2012}}</ref> He made his final first-class appearance in December 1909, being dismissed for a duck during his only innings.<ref>{{cite web|url=httphttps://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/8/8041.html |title=South Australia v New South Wales: Sheffield Shield 1909/10 |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdateaccess-date=18 December 2012}}</ref> Described in his ''[[Australian Dictionary of Biography]]'' entry as an elegant right-handed batsman,<ref name="adb"/> Claxton scored a total of 2,090 first-class runs between 1899 and 1909, at an average of 29.43. He also bowled, alebit without much success at state level, as a right-arm [[Fast bowling|fast-medium]], and claimed 66 wickets at a [[bowling average]] of 34.42.<ref name="caprof"/>
 
After his retirement from playing first-class cricket, Claxton became an administrator for South Australia, acting as a selector between 1902 and 1905, and again from 1907 until 1909. He was the team manager for a time in 1913, and sat on the state association's committee for twenty years.<ref name="adb"/>
 
==Other sports==
Aside from cricket, Claxton enjoyed a number of sports. He represented North Adelaide in both [[baseball]] and [[Australian rules football]]. He was a member of the [[North Adelaide Football Club]] teams that won the [[South Australian National Football League|South Australian Football Association]] in 1900 and 1902, for whom he played as a [[Half-back line|half-back]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nafc.com.au/history/brief.aspx |title=A Brief History of the Club |publisher=[[North Adelaide Football Club]] |accessdateaccess-date=18 December 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121231190759/http://www.nafc.com.au/history/brief.aspx |archive-date=31 December 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nafc.com.au/history/premierships/1900.aspx |title=1900 |publisher=North Adelaide Football Club |accessdateaccess-date=18 December 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nafc.com.au/history/premierships/1902.aspx |title=1902 |publisher=North Adelaide Football Club |accessdateaccess-date=18 December 2012}}</ref> He later became the founding president of the South Australian Baseball League between 1913 and 1929. In 1934, he established a tournament intended to promote regular contests between state baseball teams. The trophy, which he donated, is still awarded to the champions of the premier baseball competition in Australia.<ref name="clark">{{cite book |url=httphttps://books.google.co.ukcom/books?id=rIXGQra02mAC&pg=PA53&lpg=PA53&dq=%22Norrie+Claxton%22&source=bl&ots=5mhRpNIRp4&sig=YLjKWqaVTLRzhWwdjma08QgEGAM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=QGPRUICkIfON0wX9w4DICA&ved=0CGAQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=%22Norrie%20Claxton%22&f=false |title=A History of Australian Baseball: Time and Game |last=Clark |first=Joe |page=52 |publisher=University of Nebraska Press |isbn=0-8032-6440-2|year=2003 }}</ref> Despite his request that the shield should not bear his name, it became known as the [[Claxton Shield]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/35026753nla.news-article35026753#pstart2928742 |title=Welcome for Americans |work=[[The Advertiser (Adelaide)|The Advertiser]] |author=Vox |location=Adelaide |date=19 December 1934 |accessdateaccess-date=19 December 2012 |page=25}}</ref> He was an inaugural inductee into the [[Baseball Australia Hall of Fame]] in 2005.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wa.baseball.com.au/?Page=15197 |title=2005 Baseball Australia Inaugural Hall of Fame |publisher=Baseball WA |accessdateaccess-date=19 December 2012}}</ref> Before he turned 30, he had also enjoyed success in both athletics and [[Field hockey|hockey]].<ref name="clark"/> He was also a prominent cyclist, and captained the North Adelaide Cycling Club from 1917 until his death.<ref name="adb"/>
 
==See also==
* [[List of South Australian representative cricketers]]
 
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{{Persondata <!-- Metadata: see [[Wikipedia:Persondata]]. -->
| NAME = Claxton, Norman
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES =
| SHORT DESCRIPTION = Australian cricketer
| DATE OF BIRTH = 2 November 1877
| PLACE OF BIRTH = North Adelaide, South Australia.
| DATE OF DEATH = 5 December 1951
| PLACE OF DEATH = North Adelaide, South Australia.
▲}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Claxton, Norman}}
[[Category:1877 births]]
[[Category:1951 deaths]]
[[Category:SportspeopleAustralian rules footballers from Adelaide]]
[[Category:Cricketers from Adelaide]]
[[Category:South Australia cricketers]]
[[Category:North Adelaide Football Club players]]
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