Norm Dare

Norm Dare

Personal information
Birth	10 September 1948 (1948-09-10) (age 63)
Recruited from	McLeod-Rosanna
Height and weight	183 cm / 73 kg
Playing career¹
Team(s)	Victorian Football League Fitzroy (1968-74, 1977) 72 games, 24 goals South Australian National Football League West Torrens (1975-76)
Coaching career¹
Team(s)	Brisbane Bears (1990) 22 games, 4 wins, 18 losses
¹ Statistics to end of 1990 season
Career highlights
Queensland Team of the Century: coach QAFL Premierships (all as coach) Kedron: 1980 Southport: 1983, 1985, 1987, 2005

Norm Dare (born 10 September 1948) is a former Australian rules footballer and coach, most notable for coaching five premierships in the QAFL.

Dare initially played league football for Fitzroy in the VFL, where he played 70 games between 1968 and 1974. He moved to West Torrens in the SANFL in 1975, most notable for his actions in the Round 15, 1975, match against West Adelaide, when Dare managed to jump the fence and hide amongst the crowd to prevent Torrens from being penalised in a head count.^[1] He returned to Fitzroy in 1977, and played only two more senior games before retiring from playing.

Following the end of his playing career, Dare remained at Fitzroy and served two seasons as reserves coach. In 1980 he moved to Queensland, and coached the Kedron Football Club to a QAFL premiership in 1980. In 1982, he moved to Southport, and coached there from 1982-1988, winning three QAFL premierships during that time (1983, 1985 and 1987).^[2] He moved to the Brisbane Bears in the VFL/AFL in 1989 as an assistant coach, and then as senior coach in 1990, but both seasons resulted in wooden spoons, which ended Dare's coaching career with the Bears. He continued to serve in an administrative role with the club during the early 1990s. While active as a coach during this time, Dare also regularly coached Queensland in interstate football.^[3]

In the 1990s, Dare left Queensland to serve in assistant coaching roles at North Melbourne (1996 to 2000), then Geelong (2001 to 2003). He returned for a second two-year stint at Southport in 2004, winning another premiership with the club in 2005. He stepped aside at the end of 2005, but in 2011 returned to coach Southport for a third time.^[3]

In 2003, Dare was named as the coach of Queensland's official 'Team of the Century'.^[4]

References

1. ^ Kingston, Geoff (11 August 1975), "Fred fades out in confusion", The Advertiser (Adelaide): 16 
2. ^ "Memorable Moments - 1982". Southport Football Club. http://www.southportsharkshistory.com.au/memorable-moments/1982.php. Retrieved 25 Sep 2011. 
3. ^ ^{a b} [tt_news=385&tx_ttnews[backPid]=4&cHash=ea5d1eaab0 "Dare is 'new' Southport coach"]. AFL Queensland. http://www.aflq.com.au/index.php?id=5&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=385&tx_ttnews[backPid]=4&cHash=ea5d1eaab0. Retrieved 25 Sep 2011. 
4. ^ "Queensland Team of the Century". AFL Queensland. http://www.sportingpulse.com/assoc_page.cgi?client=1-4711-0-0-0&sID=55949&news_task=DETAIL&articleID=4878149&sectionID=55949. Retrieved 25 Sep 2011. 

External links

• Norm Dare's statistics from AFL Tables

Preceded by Paul Feltham

Brisbane Bears coach 1990

Succeeded by Robert Walls

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Name	Dare, Norm
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Date of birth	10 September 1948
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