Norm Webb
| Norm Webb | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal information | |||
| Full name | Norm Webb | ||
| Date of birth | 18 May 1921 | ||
| Date of death | 16 June 1996 (aged 75) | ||
| Original team(s) | Granya | ||
| Height | 180 cm (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Weight | 83 kg (183 lb) | ||
| Position(s) | Half Forward | ||
| Playing career1 | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 1947–49 | Footscray | 47 (17) | |
|
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1949. | |||
| Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com | |||
Norm Webb (18 May 1921 – 16 June 1996) was a former Australian rules footballer who played with Footscray in the Victorian Football League (VFL). [1]
Webb was originally from the Granya Football Club and shared the 1940 Mitta Valley Football Association best and fairest award with W Hodgkin from Mitta Valley. [2]
At some stage during World War Two Webb played with South Sydney Football Club. [3]
When playing with the Wodonga Football Club in 1952, Webb won the Ovens and Murray Football League best and fairest award, the Morris Medal. [4] Webb also won Wodonga's best and fairest award in 1952 too. Webb also polled 16 brownlow votes over 3 seasons with Footscray and is the only footballer to have won a Barton Medal (TDFL), Morris Medal (OMFL) and also an Azzi Medal (Hume Football League).
At the end of the 1947, "Clubman", the Weekly Times football correspondent rated ex-Granya Webb the third-best of all of the first-year "former country players" in that year's VFL Competition: the best was the ex-Echuca Melbourne player, Eddie Jackson, and the second-best was the ex-Wycheproof Collingwood player, Alex Denney.[5]
Notes
- ^ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 933. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
- ^ "1940 - Mitta Valley FA - Best & Fairest Award". Trove Newspapers. Border Morning Mail newspaper.
- ^ "Football in Sydney during World War Two". Trove Newspapers. NSW Australian Football History Society.
- ^ "1952 - O&MFL - Morris Medal". Trove Newspapers. The Corowa Free Press.
- ^ 'Clubman', "Echuca Lad is Best of his Year in City Games", The Weekly Times, (Wednesday, 3 September 1947), p.54.
External links
- Norm Webb's playing statistics from AFL Tables
- Norm Webb at AustralianFootball.com