[2] The club was responsible for proposing the introduction of the corner-kick into Sheffield Rules in 1868;[3][4][5][6] the corner would subsequently be introduced into association football in 1872.

[7] During the amateur era, the club was one of the largest in Sheffield, and boasted of a positive cash balance of £60 in 1873.

[8] However, as professionalism entered the game Norfolk failed to keep track; it did not enter the FA Cup at all, and in the first Sheffield Challenge Cup in 1876–77, was beaten in the first round by the unfancied Philadelphia club, a shot from Aaron Ambler deflecting in off Bennett Ward.

Norfolk's chances were not helped by several players walking off near the end in protest at a claim for a goal being turned down, the referee judging that a high shot from Taylor grazed the junction of post and tape, but crucially had gone over the tape.

[10] The club's colours were originally grey and blue.