{{short description|Australian rules footballer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2015}} {{Use Australian English|date=September 2015}} {{Infobox AFL biography | name = Norm Sexton | image = | fullname = Norman Charles Sexton | birth_date = {{birth date|1903|02|12|df=y}} | birth_place = Kiewa, Victoria | death_date = {{death date and age|1952|10|20|1903|02|12|df=y}} <ref>{{cite web |title=1952 - Death Notice |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/23217128 |via=Trove Newspapers |work=The Argus |accessdate=19 June 2020 |date=21 October 1952|page=11}}</ref> | death_place = Terang, Victoria | originalteam = Brunswick, Coburg | height = 173 cm | weight = 63 kg | position = | statsend = 1931 | years1 = 1924 | club1 = {{AFL Car}} | games_goals1 = {{0}}3 (0) | years2 = 1925–1928 | club2 = Coburg (VFA) | games_goals2 = 51 (4) | years3 = 1931 | club3 = {{AFL Foo}} | games_goals3 = {{0}}1 (0) | careerhighlights = }} '''Norman Charles Sexton''' (12 February 1903 – 21 October 1952) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton and Footscray in the Victorian Football League (VFL).<ref name="encyc">{{cite book |title=The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 |last1=Holmesby|first1=Russell|last2=Main|first2=Jim |year=2009 |edition=8th |isbn=978-1-921496-00-4 |publisher=BAS Publishing |location=Seaford, Victoria |page=755}}</ref>

==Family== Born Norman Charles Schroeter, Norm Sexton was the fourth child of John Godfrey Schroeter and Margaret Francis Hopgood. By the time he played football he had adopted the surname Sexton.

==Football== Sexton started his career with Coburg when they were a junior club and then played the first three rounds with Carlton in 1924 before returning to Coburg.<ref>{{cite web |title=1928 - Coburg's consistent wingster |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/184268639 |via=Trove Newspapers |work=Sporting Globe |location=Melbourne|accessdate=18 June 2020 |date=26 May 1928|page=6}}</ref>

He played with Coburg until he was forced to miss the second half of the 1928 VFA season with pneumonia.<ref>{{cite web |title=1928 - Sexton ill with pneumonia. |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/205469196 |via=Trove Newspapers |work=The Age |accessdate=19 June 2020 |date=17 August 1928|page=6}}</ref>

In 1931 Sexton returned to VFL football, after serving a three-year suspension (commencing in 1928) for failing to gain a clearance from Carlton to Coburg. His ban was lifted by the VFL Permits Committee in July 1931.<ref>{{cite web |title=1931 - Disqualifcation Completed |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/203026195 |via=Trove Newspapers |work=The Age |accessdate=19 June 2020 |date=23 July 1931|page=3}}</ref>

Sexton was captain / coach of Eaglehawk Football Club in 1932, in the Bendigo Football League,<ref>{{cite web |title=1932 - Eaglehawk's coach |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/223814074 |via=Trove Newspapers |work=The Weekly Times |accessdate=18 June 2020 |date=30 July 1932|page=61}}</ref> where they were runners up to Sandhurst in the grand final.<ref>{{cite web |title=1932 - Bendigo title to Sandhurst |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/224467552 |via=Trove Newspapers |work=The Weekly Times |accessdate=18 June 2020 |date=29 October 1932|page=64}}</ref>

Sexton was captain / coach of the Deniliquin Football Club<ref>{{cite web |title=1933 - Sexton appointed coach |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/116482090 |via=Trove Newspapers |work=The Riverine Herald|location=Echuca, Vic. |accessdate=18 June 2020 |date=18 April 1933|page=2}}</ref> to a premiership in 1933, their first year in the Echuca Football League.<ref>{{cite web |title=1933 - Echuca FL - Grand Final match review. |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/102678004/10985648 |via=Trove Newspapers |work=The Independent|location=Deniliquin, NSW|accessdate=18 June 2020 |date=3 October 1933|page=1}}</ref>

Sexton coached the Imperials Football Club to the 1934 premiership in the Hay Football Association.<ref>{{cite web |title=1934 - Hay FA - Grand Final match review |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/136896287 |via=Trove Newspapers |work=The Riverine Grazier |accessdate=19 June 2020 |date=13 July 1934|page=4}}</ref>

Sexton was captain / coach of Terang Football Club in 1939, in the Hampden Football League.<ref>{{cite web |title=1939 - Sexton appointed Terang coach |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/224433768 |via=Trove Newspapers |work=The Weekly Times|accessdate=18 June 2020 |date=1 July 1939|page=63}}</ref>

== Notes == {{reflist}}

== External links == *{{AFL Tables|ref=N/Norm_Sexton.html}} *[http://www.blueseum.org/tiki-index.php?page=Norm+Sexton Norm Sexton's profile] at Blueseum *[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/184268645/ Norm Sexton action photo]

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