Norman Ware

Norm Ware
Ware in 1942
Personal information
Full name	Norman Ware
Date of birth	5 March 1911
Date of death	26 August 2003(2003-08-26) (aged 92)
Original team(s)	Sale
Height	193 cm (6 ft 4 in)
Weight	91 kg (201 lb)
Position(s)	Ruckman
Playing career1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1932–1946	Footscray	200 (220)
Coaching career
Years	Club	Games (W–L–D)
1941–1942	Footscray	33 (20–13–0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1946.
Career highlights
Brownlow Medal: 1941 Footscray captain: 1941–1942 5× McCarthy trophy/Con Curtain trophy: 1934, 1937, 1938, 1940, 1941 Footscray leading goalkicker: 1942
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Norman Ware (5 March 1911 – 26 August 2003^[1]) was an Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

A scrupulously fair, clever and unusually pacy ruckman for Footscray, Ware is the only captain-coach to have won the Brownlow Medal, 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 Wally played for Hawthorn.^[2]

In 2001 Ware was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame.

Career highlights

• Brownlow Medal: 1941
• Footscray Best and Fairest: 1934, 1937, 1938, 1940, 1941, 1942
• Footscray captain: 1940
• Victorian representative (10 games, 6 goals)
• Footscray Team of the Century (2002)
• Footscray-Western Bulldogs Hall of Fame: Legend (2018)
• Australian Football Hall of Fame (2001)

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