Playing Career
Vital Statistics
- Full Name
- Hugh Valentine Raymond Norman
- Born
- Wednesday, 10th October, 1888
- Died
- Thursday, 29th April, 1971 (Aged 82 years and 202 days)
- Place Of Birth
- Leichhardt, New South Wales, Australia
Honours & Awards
Based only on data available in the RLP database. This information should be used as a guide only.
- Test Series
- New Zealand vs Australia 1919
- Interstate Series
- 1912, 1913, 1919
- NSWRFL Premiership (NRL)
- 1914
Known Family Links
- Brother
- Rex Norman
- Roy Norman
- Bernard Norman
Biography
Outstanding five-eighth and centre had a grounding in RU before joining brothers Rex and Roy at the Annandale club. Norman, whose 84 career pts (12t, 24g) remains a modest club record with the now defunct inner city club first represented NSW on the history-making tour of NZ in 1912. Moving to Souths he made his Test debut as a five-eighth in the First Test against England in 1914. He was Australia's only try-scorer in the 23-5 loss but was dropped for the remainder of the series and had to wait another five years, until after the end of World War I, to represent Australia again. After moving to Easts, Norman toured NZ with the Australian team in 1919 and made his final Test appearance in the Fourth Test at Auckland. Ray Norman coached Easts to win the premiership in 1923 and later coached Manly (1954) and NSW Country. He spent a lot of his adult life coaching school children on the skills of the game, even writing a text book on rugby league that was adopted by the NSW Education Department. Norman passed away in 1971, age 82.
- ALAN WHITICKER
Playing Career Statistics
All statistics shown in this section are based only on data available in the RLP database, and are not necessarily a complete and/or 100% accurate representation of a player's career. This information should be used as a guide only. If you see a question mark (?), it denotes that the figure is not available.
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Competitions | |||||||||||||||
| Competition | Comp Wins | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
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| The Ashes | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | List | ||||
| Tour Matches | New South Wales Firsts | - | 19 | 7 | 22 | - | 65 | 16 | 3 | 0 | 84.21% | List | |||
| Tour Matches | Metropolis | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | |||
| Tour Matches | Australia | - | 28 | 7 | 19 | - | 59 | 22 | 6 | 0 | 78.57% | List | |||
| Test Series | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 0 | 50.00% | List | ||||
| Interstate Series | 3 | 5 | 3 | 6 | - | 21 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | ||||
| NSWRFL Premiership (NRL) | 1 | 138 | 20 | 42 | - | 144 | 72 | 60 | 6 | 52.17% | List | ||||
| NSWRFL Finals | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | List | ||||
| City Cup | - | 17 | 2 | 0 | - | 6 | 11 | 6 | 0 | 64.71% | List | ||||
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Test Matches - By Team | |||||||||||||||
| Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| Australia | 1914, 1919, 1921 | 4 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 50.00% | List | ||||
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Australia - By Team | |||||||||||||||
| Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| Metropolis | 1912, 1914, 1920 | 3 | 5 | 1 | - | 17 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | ||||
| NSW Firsts | 1912-14, 1919-20 | 22 | 8 | 22 | - | 68 | 19 | 3 | 0 | 86.36% | List | ||||
| Combined 1st | 1917 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | List | ||||
| Rest of NSW Firsts | 1917 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | ||||
| Overall | 1912-1920 | 27 | 13 | 23 | 0 | 85 | 23 | 4 | 0 | 85.19% | List | ||||
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NSWRFL Premiership (NRL) - By Year | |||||||||||||||
| Team | Season | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| Annandale | NSWRFL 1910 | 10 | 2 | 5 | - | 16 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 50.00% | List | ||||
| Annandale | NSWRFL 1911 | 14 | 6 | 5 | - | 28 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 35.71% | List | ||||
| Annandale | NSWRFL 1912 | 11 | 1 | 9 | - | 21 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 9.09% | List | ||||
| Annandale | NSWRFL 1913 | 13 | 3 | 7 | - | 23 | 2 | 11 | 0 | 15.38% | List | ||||
| South Sydney | NSWRFL 1914 | 12 | 2 | 1 | - | 8 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 83.33% | List | ||||
| South Sydney | NSWRFL 1915 | 12 | 3 | - | - | 9 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 66.67% | List | ||||
| South Sydney | NSWRFL 1916 | 14 | - | - | - | - | 10 | 4 | 0 | 71.43% | List | ||||
| Eastern Suburbs | NSWRFL 1917 | 14 | 1 | 3 | - | 9 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 50.00% | List | ||||
| Eastern Suburbs | NSWRFL 1918 | 11 | - | 2 | - | 4 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 45.45% | List | ||||
| Eastern Suburbs | NSWRFL 1919 | 10 | 1 | 3 | - | 9 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 70.00% | List | ||||
| Eastern Suburbs | NSWRFL 1920 | 11 | - | 7 | - | 14 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 63.64% | List | ||||
| Eastern Suburbs | NSWRFL 1921 | 6 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 83.33% | List | ||||
NSWRFL Premiership (NRL) - By Team | |||||||||||||||
| Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| Annandale | 1910-13 | 48 | 12 | 26 | - | 88 | 13 | 33 | 2 | 27.08% | List | ||||
| South Sydney | 1914-16 | 38 | 5 | 1 | - | 17 | 28 | 8 | 2 | 73.68% | List | ||||
| Eastern Suburbs | 1917-21 | 52 | 3 | 15 | - | 39 | 31 | 19 | 2 | 59.62% | List | ||||
| Overall | 1910-1921 | 138 | 20 | 42 | 0 | 144 | 72 | 60 | 6 | 52.17% | List | ||||
Contributions:
Greg Fiveash, Shawn Dollin, Andrew Ferguson, Rugby League Tables, Tony McCarron, Alan Katzmann, Max Turner, Bill Bates, Jamie Murdoch
Your Say
28/04/2018
Ray was my next door neighbour when I was growing up in Sydney’s eastern suburbs. Whilst he suffered from a lack of mobility in later life and always had a walking stick, rugby league was always close to his heart & constantly taught ball, taclong & other skills to those interested. He also ran weekly training sessions in his back yard which attracted uo to 20 neighbourhood kids. He had a tackle machine built into his property so he could conduct drills properly. His classes featured in Rugby League Week - the magazine of what is now the NRL. Ray & his wife were incredibly generous & much loved in the local community.
18/05/2024
Ray was my great uncle and he and my Grandfather Alf Butler married the Hayes sisters from Balmain (Lena and Eileen.
I lived up the road from Uncle Ray at Wentworth Road Vaucluse and witnessed him running classes for Kids on his grass court down the road with 20+ children running through rugby fundamentals.
He was the first premiership winning coach of Easts in 1923 and he and 2 brothers played for Easts.
I can confirm that Great Uncle Ray and Auntie Lena sadly had no kids and left all of their estate to Police clubs and disadvantaged children generally .
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