Norm Sharp (23 June 1934 – 8 October 2014) 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

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in the

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during the 1950s. A ruckman, Sharp was a premiership player in his debut season in 1952 and won a

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two years later. A knee injury caused him to retire prematurely at the age of just 23.

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* 1934 births Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Geelong Football Club players Geelong Football Club premiership players Carji Greeves Medal winners Camperdown Football Club players 2014 deaths VFL/AFL premiership players 20th-century Australian sportsmen {{AFL-bio-1930s-stub