Barry Butler (footballer, born 1934) for the club including a consecutive run of 208 games which was only broken because of his appearance in an FA XI side. Tragically Butler would never take up his position as player-coach. On 9 April 1966, Butler was killed in a car crash at the age of 31, his car having collided with a bus late at night. His funeral was held at St Peter Mancroft church in Norwich. The year after his death, the Norwich City player of the year award was named "The Barry Butler Memorial Trophy" in his honour and has been voted for by the
English cricket team in Australia in 1946–47 "See him while you can. Your grandsons will feel you have let them down if you haven't seen him on their behalf". However, Hammond came "as a cricket god, only to leave a failure both as a batsman and a captain". He retired on his return to England and moved to South Africa, where he remained detached from cricket until he took to the habit of visiting M.J.K. Smith's touring team just before he died in a car accident in 1965. "It was a formidable array of run-getters who on past efforts appears to tower above everything we could put