Norm Tipping
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Hurstville, New South Wales, Australia
Cronulla, New South Wales, Australia
 Tipping 1947 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Norman Herbert Tipping | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 10 January 1913 Hurstville, New South Wales, Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 11 March 2002 (aged 89) Cronulla, New South Wales, Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Centre | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Norman Herbert Tipping (1913–2002) was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1930s and 1940s. He later became a premiership winning first grade coach for the St George Dragons.
Born in Hurstville, New South Wales, Norm Tipping's early football was rugby union played with the St. George Rugby Union Club. His first grade rugby league career was often curtailed by serious injury, although he did complete five seasons with the St George club between 1932 and 1933, 1936, and 1943–1944.
In 1936 he suffered a near career ending spinal injury while playing in an end of season tour match and was in plaster for months. Incredibly, after seven seasons in retirement he returned to first grade football in 1943 and finally retired at the end of the 1944 season.
