Norman Ware

{{short description|Australian rules footballer, born 1911}}

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{{Use Australian English|date=September 2015}}

{{Infobox AFL biography

| name = Norm Ware

| image = Norm Ware.png

| caption = Ware in 1942

| fullname = Norman Ware

| birth_date = 5 March 1911

| birth_place =

| death_date = {{death date and age|2003|8|26|1911|3|5|df=yes}}

| death_place =

| originalteam = Sale

| height = 193 cm

| weight = 91 kg

| position = Ruckman

| statsend = 1946

| years1 = 1932–1946

| club1 = Footscray

| games_goals1 = 200 (220)

| coachyears1 = 1941–1942

| coachclub1 = Footscray

| coachgames_wins1 = 33 (20–13–0)

| careerhighlights = *Brownlow Medal: 1941

• Footscray captain: 1941–1942
• 5× McCarthy trophy/Con Curtain trophy: 1934, 1937, 1938, 1940, 1941
• Footscray leading goalkicker: 1942

}}

Norman Ware (5 March 1911 – 26 August 2003{{cite news |last=Lines |first=Chris |date=25 August 2003 |title=Norm Ware dies aged 92 |url=https://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/08/26/1061663785278.html |work=The Age}}) was an Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

A scrupulously fair, clever and unusually pacy ruckman for Footscray, Ware is the only captain-coach to have won the Brownlow Medal, 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 Wally played for Hawthorn.{{cite news |date=2 November 1931 |title=Sale Footballer For Footscray |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article63248632 |access-date=16 March 2015 |newspaper=Gippsland Times |location=Victoria |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}}

In 2001 Ware was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame.