Norm Smith

Norman Walter "Norm" Smith (21 November 1915, Clifton Hill, Victoria – 29 July 1973, Pascoe Vale, Victoria) was an Australian rules football player and coach in the Victorian Football League. After 200 games as a player with Melbourne and Fitzroy, Smith began a twenty-year coaching career, including a fifteen-year stint at Melbourne. Recognised as the father of modern Australian football coaching, Smith coached Melbourne to six premierships and in 1996 was chosen as the coach of the AFL Team of the Century.

Personal life

Smith and elder brother Len (born 9 February 1912) were the sons of ironworker Victor Smith and Ethel May (née Brown). After attending Westgarth Central School, Smith completed an engineering apprenticeship and worked at Millers rope-works in Brunswick. In 1943, he took over his father's engineering business in Northcote, later relocating it to North Coburg in 1954. On 19 October 1940, he married Marjorie Victoria Ellis, at the Wesley Church in Melbourne. Their only child, Peter, was born in 1947.

Norm Smith (footballer born 1946)

Norman "Norm" Smith (born 1 September 1946) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Early career and Hawthorn

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. 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.

Goulburn Valley Football League

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.

Ovens & Murray Football League

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.

Canberra

In 1979 he coached Belconnen to its first Australian Capital Territory Football League grand final, which they lost to Ainslie. From 1980 to 1982, Smith played at West Canberra. He was coach in the last of those years and again for the 1985 season, in a non-playing capacity. In 1986 he was non-playing coach of the Belconnen Magpies, formed by a merger between Belconnen and West Canberra.

Norman Smith

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Norm Smith (rugby union)

Norman Cecil Smith (c. 1899 – c. 1971) was a rugby union player who represented Australia.

Smith, a wing, claimed a total of 6 international rugby caps for Australia.

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Norm Smith (politician)

Norman Smith (born February 1947), was an American politician who was a member of the Oregon House of Representatives. He is a former musician and member of the band Mr. Lucky & The Gamblers.

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