Norm Hillard

Norm Hillard
Personal information
Date of birth	3 June 1915
Date of death	24 April 1986 (aged 70)
Place of death	Kew, Victoria
Original team(s)	Kew
Height / weight	180 cm / 81 kg
Playing career^1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1933, 1936–37 1939–1946 Total -	Hawthorn Fitzroy	032 (57) 094 (12) 126 (69)
Coaching career
Years	Club	Games (W–L–D)
1945	Fitzroy	1 (1–0–0)
^1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1946.

Norm Hillard (3 June 1915 – 24 April 1986) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn and Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Hillard played in the forward line during his time at Hawthorn, kicking a career best 31 goals in the 1937 season. During his time at Fitzroy however he was used in defence and was the club's centre half back in their 1944 premiership. He was awarded best player in the 1944 premiership.

He later became coach of the Fitzroy Football Club 2nds team and was Chairman of Selectors for over two decades and also a longtime vice president of the club.

External links

• Norm Hillard's statistics from AFL Tables
• 2004 obituary of Maurie Hearn, mentioning Clen Denning and Laurie Bickerton as the surviving members of the Maroons' 1944 side