Norm MacLeod was an Australian rules football

Australian rules football

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...

er who played for Collingwood

Collingwood Football Club

The Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed The Magpies, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League...

 in the Victorian Football League

Australian Football League

The Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...

 (VFL) during the late 1920s and early 1930s.

MacLeod, a wingman, appeared in the opening three rounds of the 1927 VFL season

1927 VFL season

Results and statistics for the Victorian Football League season of 1927.-Premiership season:In 1927, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, with no "reserves", although any of the 18 players who had left the playing field for any reason could later resume...

but didn't play another game after that until the following year. In just his 18th league game, MacLeod became a premiership player when he was a member of the Collingwood side which defeated Richmond in the 1928 Grand Final.