Records
His appearance in eleven Grand Finals is an Australian rugby league record. His victory statistic of ten consecutive first-grade premierships is a world record in rugby league and arguably a world class statistic in top-grade team sport.
His brother Peter Provan played alongside him at St George in the 1958 and 1959 Grand Finals and later captained the Balmain Tigers to their 1969 Grand Final victory. Together Norm and Peter are the only brothers to have led differing Australian first-grade rugby league side to premiership victory.
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