Jack Norris (American football)

John Clayton Norris, known as Jack Norris, was an American football end who played one season in the National Football League for the Staten Island Stapletons. Born on May 18, 1909, he was a native of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and attended Westinghouse high school in Pittsburgh before college at Western Maryland and Maryland. At Maryland he excelled in four sports, earning letters in football, lacrosse, track and field, and basketball, with honorable mention on the all-Southern football team, all-Maryland honors in basketball and all-American honors in lacrosse. After signing with the Stapletons he appeared in one or two games, starting one, in a season in which the team finished 2-7-3, and the club folded the next season, ending his professional career. He died on his 99th birthday, May 18, 2008, in California, as the last living Staten Island Stapletons player.