[2] After a game in which he scored four goals and added an assist, the Ottawa Citizen in February 1928 described him as "one of the most brilliant performers in junior ranks.

[7] On November 17, 1929, in the first period of his first game with the Olympics, Newman scored his first professional goal and was described as "a stocky little fellow [who] turned in a great exhibition of hook-checking and stick-handling than Detroit has seen in the minor ranks" since Vic Ripley.

[9] By the start of his second season, and after "playing the greatest game of his brief career", including "a smartly-executed solo effort" in which he beat the whole Windsor team and scored on a back-hand from "an angle which appeared impossible," he was branded as a "star" by the Detroit Free Press.

[1] He scored his first and only NHL goal "on a pretty backhand shot" in a March 15, 1931, game against the Boston Bruins.

[9] In September 1933, the Red Wings traded Newman and two others Olympic players to the Buffalo Bisons in exchange for star defenseman Gamey Lederman.