Norman Waugh

{{Short description|Australian rules footballer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2018}}

{{Use Australian English|date=January 2018}}

{{Infobox AFL biography

| name = Norm Waugh

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| fullname = Norman James Waugh

| birth_date = {{birth date|1874|05|10|df=y}}

| birth_place = Prahran, Victoria

| death_date = {{death date and age|1934|08|06|1874|05|10|df=yes}}

| death_place = Johannesburg, South Africa

| originalteam = Collegian Amateurs

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| statsend = 1898

| years1 = 1897–1898

| club1 = {{AFL Ess}}

| games_goals1 = 23 (30)

| careerhighlights = *VFL premiership player: 1897

• Essendon leading goalkicker 1897
• Jim 'Frosty' Miller Medal: 1896

}}

Norman James "Norm" Waugh (10 May 1874 – 6 August 1934) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Essendon Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). In the first year of competition, he became one of the club's and leagues first premiership players, during the 1897 VFL season, under the captaincy of George Stuckey. Waugh made his debut against {{AFL Gee}} in Round 1 of the season, at Corio Oval. Waugh was also Essendon's first-ever leading goalkicker in a VFL season.{{cite web |title=Player Profiles: W |url=http://www.essendonfc.com.au/our-club/history/past-player-profiles/past-player-profiles--w |work=Essendon FC |access-date=16 November 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924015140/http://www.essendonfc.com.au/our-club/history/past-player-profiles/past-player-profiles--w |archive-date=2015-09-24}} His 23 goals was the third-highest in the League, behind Jack Leith of Melbourne (26), and Eddy James of Geelong (27).{{cite book |last1=Ross |first1=John |title=100 Years of Australian Football |date=1996 |publisher=Penguin Books |location=Ringwood, Victoria |isbn=978-0670868148 |page=38}}

He was the youngest son of Dr James S. Waugh, the first president of Wesley College. After retiring from football, he entered the insurance industry and became the chief executive officer of the National Mutual Company in South Africa. He died in Johannesburg in 1934, aged 60.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article10975716 |title=Obituary |newspaper=The Argus |location=Melbourne |date=8 August 1934 |access-date=17 November 2014 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}}