{{Short description|English footballer (1912–1988)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2016}} {{Use British English|date=May 2016}} {{Infobox football biography | name = Norman Brunskill | image = | fullname = | birth_date = {{birth date|1912|6|14|df=y}} | birth_place = Dipton, County Durham, England | death_date = {{death date and age|1988|2|28|1912|6|14|df=y}} | death_place = Boston, England | height = 6 ft 0 in<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/sunday-dispatch-football-guide-1936-xiii/134324494/ |title=Oldham are an unknown quantity |newspaper=Sunday Dispatch Football Guide |location=London |date=23 August 1936 |page=xiii |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> | position = Wing half | years1 = | clubs1 = Lintz Colliery | years2 = 1930–1932 | clubs2 = Huddersfield Town | caps2 = 0 | goals2 = 0 | years3 = 1932–1936 | clubs3 = Oldham Athletic | caps3 = 143 | goals3 = 10 | years4 = 1936–1938 | clubs4 = Birmingham | caps4 = 63 | goals4 = 2 | years5 = 1938–1946 | clubs5 = Barnsley | caps5 = 31 | goals5 = 2 }} '''Norman H. Brunskill''' (14 June 1912 – 28 February 1988) was an English professional footballer who played as a wing half. He made nearly 250 appearances in the Football League playing for Oldham Athletic, Birmingham and Barnsley.<ref name=Joyce>{{cite book |author=Joyce, Michael |title=Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939 |publisher=SoccerData |location=Nottingham |year=2004 |pages=41 |isbn=978-1-899468-67-6}}</ref>
Born in Dipton, near Stanley, County Durham, Brunskill worked as a coal miner and began his football career with works team Lintz Colliery F.C. A trial with Newcastle United came to nothing, but in October 1930 he signed for Huddersfield Town as an amateur, signing professional forms at the end of the 1930–31 season.<ref name=Matthews>{{cite book |author=Matthews, Tony |title=Birmingham City: A Complete Record |year=1995 |publisher=Breedon Books |location=Derby |pages=76 |isbn=978-1-85983-010-9}}</ref> The following season produced no first-team appearances<ref name=Joyce/> so he moved on to Oldham Athletic, where he spent four seasons before Birmingham paid £1,300 for his services. After two years and 65 appearances in all competitions, he joined Barnsley, with whom he won the championship of the Third Division (North) in 1938–39. During the Second World War he made guest appearances for Middlesbrough and Hartlepools United, and was released from his contract with Barnsley at the end of the war. He died in Boston, Lincolnshire, aged 75.<ref name=Matthews/>
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