Jack Norman

John Norman was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League.

Family

The eldest son of Norwegian-born Jonas Mattias Elija Svehaug and Sarah Ann Curran, John Svehaug was born in Newport, Wales on 2 August 1909. The family took the anglicised surname Norman when they emigrated to Australia in 1914.
He married Stella May Sullivan in 1931.

Football

After a single senior game in three years with Fitzroy, Norman transferred to Preston during the 1939 season where he played either side of his period of service in the Royal Australian Air Force during World War II.