Jack Norman | |
Fullname: | John Norman |
Birth Date: | 2 August 1909 |
Birth Place: | Newport, Wales |
Originalteam: | Brunswick |
Height: | 188 cm |
Weight: | 89 kg |
Statsend: | 1938 |
Years1: | 1938 |
Games Goals1: | 1 (1) |
Years2: | 1940–41, 45–46 |
Club2: | Preston (VFA) |
Games Goals2: | 52 (24) |
John Norman (2 August 1909 – 23 March 1994) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]
The eldest son of Norwegian-born Jonas Mattias Elija Svehaug (1886–1968) and Sarah Ann Curran (1886–1968), John Svehaug was born in Newport, Wales (the city of his mother's birth) on 2 August 1909. The family took the anglicised surname Norman when they emigrated to Australia in 1914.
He married Stella May Sullivan in 1931.
After a single senior game in three years with Fitzroy, Norman transferred to Preston during the 1939 season[2] where he played either side of his period of service in the Royal Australian Air Force during World War II.[3]