Brookes was also an Australian rules football

Australian rules football

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...

er in his youth, playing two matches for Victorian Football League

Australian Football League

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 club St Kilda Football Club in 1898, kicking two goals.

Honours

Norman Brookes was knighted "in recognition of service to public service" in 1939. Lady Brookes became Dame Mabel Brookes in 1955.

The trophy for men's singles at the Australian Open, the Norman Brookes Challenge Cup, is named in his honour.

He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame

International Tennis Hall of Fame

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 in 1977.

In 1981 he was honoured on a postage stamp

Postage stamp

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 issued by Australia Post

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 depicting a cartoon image by Tony Rafty

Tony Rafty

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Australian Championships

• Singles champion: 1911
• Doubles champion: 1924

Wimbledon

• Singles champion: 1907, 1914
• Singles finalist: 1905, 1919
• Doubles champion: 1907, 1914

External links

• ADB biography
• W. H. Frederick, 'Brookes, Sir Norman Everard (1877–1968)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 7, Melbourne University Press, 1979, pp 427–428.
• Dame Mabel Brookes
  Mabel Brookes
  Dame Mabel Brookes, DBE was an Australian community worker, activist, socialite, writer, memoirist and humanitarian....
  
  , Memoires (Macmillan, 1974)
• International Tennis Hall of Fame