Rex Norman
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Rex Norman was an Australian rugby league
footballer, a state and national representative player who club career was played with Annandale, the South Sydney Rabbitohs
and the Eastern Suburbs Roosters.
He was one of three brothers along with Roy and Ray Norman
who played in the NSW Rugby Football League first-grade competition. Both Rex and Ray represented with the Australia national rugby league team becoming only the second set of brothers to do so behind Viv and Bill Farnsworth. Rex was selected on the 1921-22 Kangaroo tour he played in 21 minor tour matches but no Tests.
He was the NSW Rugby Football League's top point scorer in 1921
.
Norman also played first-class cricket
for New South Wales
, appearing in seven matches from 1918 to 1920. A left-arm fast-medium bowler, he took 31 wickets at 26.83.
Rugby league
Rugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. One of the two codes of rugby football, it originated in England in 1895 by a split from Rugby Football Union over paying players...
footballer, a state and national representative player who club career was played with Annandale, the South Sydney Rabbitohs
South Sydney Rabbitohs
The South Sydney Rabbitohs are an Australian professional rugby league football team based in Redfern, a suburb of South-central Sydney, New South Wales. They participate in the National Rugby League premiership and are one of nine existing teams from the state capital...
and the Eastern Suburbs Roosters.
He was one of three brothers along with Roy and Ray Norman
Ray Norman
Ray Norman was an Australian rugby league footballer and coach. A state and national representative, his club career was played with Annandale, the South Sydney and the Eastern Suburbs clubs in the NSWRFL....
who played in the NSW Rugby Football League first-grade competition. Both Rex and Ray represented with the Australia national rugby league team becoming only the second set of brothers to do so behind Viv and Bill Farnsworth. Rex was selected on the 1921-22 Kangaroo tour he played in 21 minor tour matches but no Tests.
He was the NSW Rugby Football League's top point scorer in 1921
New South Wales Rugby Football League season 1921
The 1921 New South Wales Rugby League premiership was the fourteenth season of Australia's first rugby league football club competition which was based in Sydney. Nine teams from across the city contested the season, with North Sydney being crowned premiers by virtue of finishing the season on top...
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Norman also played first-class cricket
First-class cricket
First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...
for New South Wales
New South Wales Blues
The New South Wales cricket team are an Australian first class cricket team based in Sydney, New South Wales...
, appearing in seven matches from 1918 to 1920. A left-arm fast-medium bowler, he took 31 wickets at 26.83.