[3] Playing mostly as a follower, Norris made up for his 178 cm with a good turn of speed as indicated by his victory in three footraces earlier that year.

A gripman on the tramways Norris competed at the employees picnic coming first in the Denham Plate (all-comers), gripmen and 440 yards events.

Named in a back pocket Norris effectively stepped into the ruck position when teammate Dave Ryan injured an elbow in the second quarter.

Moving on from Fitzroy in 1919 he transferred to North Melbourne in the Victorian Football Association (VFA)[8] where he suffered a broken nose against Williamstown in one of his first matches.

Heatherton versus Mordialloc in the Federal Football League was his tenth and final match as a VFL umpire.