Norman Ware (5 March 1911 – 26 August 2003) was an

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er 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). A scrupulously fair, clever and unusually pacy ruckman for Footscray, Ware is the only captain-coach to have won the

Brownlow Medal The Charles Brownlow Trophy, better known as the Brownlow Medal (and informally as Charlie), is awarded to the best and fairest player in the Australian Football League (AFL) during the home-and-away season, as determined by votes cast by the f ...

, and is likely to remain so indefinitely, as it would be almost impossible for a captain of an AFL team to act as a coach today, and even so, playing coaches are prohibited under salary cap regulations (instituted in 1987) in order to prevent wealthier clubs from circumventing the restrictions of the salary cap and salary floor. He was recruited from Sale. His brother

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played for Hawthorn. In 2001 Ware was inducted into the

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Career highlights

: 1941 * Footscray Best and Fairest: 1934, 1937, 1938, 1940, 1941, 1942 * Footscray captain: 1940 * Victorian representative (10 games, 6 goals) * Footscray Team of the Century (2002) * Footscray-Western Bulldogs Hall of Fame: Legend (2018) * Australian Football Hall of Fame (2001)

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Australian Football Hall of Fame
1911 births 2003 deaths Western Bulldogs players Western Bulldogs coaches Australian Football Hall of Fame inductees Brownlow Medal winners Charles Sutton Medal winners Sale Football Club players Australian rules footballers from Sale, Victoria {{AFL-bio-1911-stub