Norm Webb

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]

Norm Webb
Personal information
Full name Norm Webb
Date of birth (1921-05-18)18 May 1921
Date of death 16 June 1996(1996-06-16) (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

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
  1. 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.
  2. "1940 - Mitta Valley FA - Best & Fairest Award". Trove Newspapers. Border Morning Mail newspaper.
  3. "Football in Sydney during World War Two". Trove Newspapers. NSW Australian Football History Society.
  4. "1952 - O&MFL - Morris Medal". Trove Newspapers. The Corowa Free Press.
  5. 'Clubman', "Echuca Lad is Best of his Year in City Games", The Weekly Times, (Wednesday, 3 September 1947), p.54.
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