Norman Butterworth Rippon (10 January 1878 – 7 November 1977) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne and South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).Holmesby (2014), p.751.
Family The son of Samuel Rippon (1845-1897),Deaths: Rippon, The Argus, (Monday, 13 December 1897), p.1. and Lucretia Eliza Rippon (1848-1899), née Butterworth,Marriages: Rippon—Butterworth, The Argus, (Friday, 25 August 1871), p.4.Deaths: Rippon, The Age, (Tuesday, 26 September 1899), p.1. Norman Butterworth Rippon was born at St Kilda, Victoria on 10 January 1878.Births: Rippon, The Argus, (Thursday, 17 January 1878), p.1.
His brothers, Les and Harold, also played for Melbourne in the VFL.
Rippon married Margaret Wilhelmina Paul (1884-1926), at Myrtleford, Victoria, on 1 July 1916.Local Wedding, The Myrtleford Mail and Whorouly Witness, (Thursday, 6 July 1916), p.1. He married Alice Victoria Hansen (1892-1965), at Bayswater, Victoria, on 20 November 1926.Marriages: Rippon—Hansen, The Age, (Monday, 17 January 1927), p.1. His son, Norman, a promising cricketer, who worked on his father's farm at Kongwak, in Gippsland, Victoria was killed in a motor accident in 1939.Militia Man Killed: Promising Cricketer, The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate, (Thursday, 26 January 1939), p.1; Side of Truck Collapses: Militiaman Killed, The Argus, (Thursday, 26 January 1939), p.1.
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References
South Melbourne Team, Punch, (Thursday, 4 June 1903), p.16.
External links
Norm Rippon, demonwiki.org.