Norman Ross Explained

Norman Ross
Fullname:	Norman DeMille Ross
Nicknames:	"The Big Moose"
National Team:	United States
Strokes:	Freestyle, water polo
Club:	Illinois Athletic Club
Collegeteam:	Stanford University
Birth Date:	May 2, 1895
Birth Place:	Portland, Oregon, U.S.
Death Place:	Evanston, Illinois, U.S.
Height:	6feet

Norman DeMille Ross (May 2, 1895 – June 19, 1953) was an American competition swimmer who won five events at the Inter-Allied Games in June 1919, held at Joinville-Le-Pont near Paris, and three gold medals at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium. He set thirteen world records and won eighteen U.S. national championships during his career.^[1]

In later years he was a popular Chicago radio personality known to listeners as "Uncle Normie."^[2] His son, Norman A Ross Jr. (1922–2008), was a well-known radio and television host, corporate executive and civic leader in Chicago.^{[3] [4] [5] [6]}

See also

• List of members of the International Swimming Hall of Fame
• List of multiple Olympic gold medalists
• List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men)
• World record progression 200 metres freestyle
• World record progression 400 metres freestyle
• World record progression 800 metres freestyle
• World record progression 4 × 200 metres freestyle relay
• Mutiny of the Matoika

Notes and References

1. Web site: Norman Ross . Olympedia . 3 September 2021.
2. https://archive.today/20120712133507/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/504884492.html?dids=504884492:504884492&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Jun+20,+1953&author=&pub=Chicago+Tribune&desc=ROSS'+DEATH+RECALLS+FEATS+AS+SWIMMER&pqatl=google Ross' Death Recalls Feats as Swimmer, Chicago Daily Tribune, June 20, 1953, pg. A2
3. http://articles.chicagobreakingnews.com/2008-10-03/news/28510701_1_personality-radio-president-for-public-affairs Radio, TV personality Norman Ross dies, Chicago Breaking News (Chicago Tribune), October 3, 2008
4. Biography Index. A cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines. Volume 3: September 1952 — August 1955, H.W. Wilson Company., New York (1956)
5. Biography Index. A cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines. Volume 21: September 1995 — August 1996, H.W. Wilson Company, New York (1996)
6. A Who's Who of Sports Champions, Their stories and records, by Ralph Hickok. Houghton Mifflin Co., New York (1995)