Norman Squire Brooker (28 September 1889 – 11 December 1976) was an
Australian rules football
Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified ...
er who played with
Richmond
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in the
Victorian Football League
The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football competition in Australia operated by the Australian Football League (AFL) as a second-tier, regional, semi-professional competition. It includes teams from clubs based in east ...
(VFL).
Brooker was recruited from
Warragul
Warragul () is a town in Victoria, Australia, south-east of Melbourne. Warragul lies between the Strzelecki Ranges to the south and the Mount Baw Baw Plateau of the Great Dividing Range to the north. As of the , the town had a population of ...
in the Central Gippsland Football Association in 1911 and made his debut in August in Round 16,
of his short three consecutive game career at Richmond.
Brooker is number 87 on the list of players to have played for the club.
Brooker served in both World Wars.
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External links
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Norm Brooker’s Profile@ Tigerland Archive
1889 births
1976 deaths
Richmond Football Club players
Australian rules footballers from Warragul
20th-century Australian sportsmen
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