His first grade rugby league career was often curtailed by serious injury, although he did complete five seasons with the St George club between 1932 and 1933, 1936, and 1943–1944.

[1] The club made the Grand Final that season but lost the game to the South Sydney Rabbitohs 31–12.

He lost the job for the next two seasons, but was again made head coach in 1956 and won the premiership, with St. George beating Balmain 18–12 in the Grand Final.

[3] Norm Tipping died on 11 March 2002 at his Cronulla, New South Wales home, aged 89.

This rugby league football biography relating to an Australian born in the 1910s is a stub.