After graduating in 1924, Cleaveland spent 22 years in Malaysia supervising the tin dredging operations for a British company a profession at which he continued to make his living after returning to America. Norman attended Stanford and played rugby for four years as well as playing on the football team for three years. Agnes would later find fame as a best selling novelist. His mother, Agnes Morley Cleaveland played basketball for Columbia University against Berkeley in the very first inter-collegiate women’s sporting event while his uncle, Bill Morley, was a three-time All American football player at Columbia who went on coach his alma matter and be elected into the College Football Hall of Fame. Norman Cleaveland came from a sporting family background.
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