Norm Smith
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Norman Walter Smith was an Australian rules football player and coach in the Victorian Football League. After more than 200 games as a player with Melbourne and Fitzroy, Smith began a twenty-year coac
Norm Smith playing for Melbourne, c. 1940s
Smith emerging onto the field for the 1946 VFL Grand Final
Statue of Smith in Yarra Park
Melbourne Football Club
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The Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed the Demons or colloquially the Dees, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It competes in the Australian Foot
Norm Smith
…29 July 1973) was an Australian rules football player and coach in the Victorian Football League (VFL). After more than 200 games as a player with Melbourne and Fitzroy, Smith began a twenty-year coaching career, including a fifteen-year stint at Melbourne. A revered figure in the Australian Football Hall…
After promoting the formation of, and captaining an 1858 incarnation of the club, Tom Wills co-wrote Melbourne's first laws.
Wills' cousin H. C. A. Harrison captained Melbourne from 1861 to 1872, and later served as club president.
Former Parade Hotel near the MCG, where in 1859 the "Rules of the Melbourne Football Club" were drafted
Melbourne playing in Yarra Park at the start of the 1874 season