Rolf Aas

Rolf Aas played as right winger for Mercantile in Kristiania (now Oslo) from 1912-21. He helped his club win the Norwegian Cup in 1912 and make it to the final in 1913. He then joined the local rivals Lyn for another two seasons. For Lyn he scored in the 1923 cup final, which they lost to SK Brann from Bergen.

Aas won 19 caps for the Norwegian national team and scored two goals. He had his début just week before the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm. In the Olympic tournament he was an unused substitute in Norway’s two games. Eight years later he represented Norway in the quarter-final, when the team lost to Czechoslovakia 4-0. His last match as international came in 1923 in a friendly against Sweden.

His brother [Mathias Widerøe Aas] played together with him for Mercantile and was also a substitute at the 1912 Olympics. Rolf Aas worked as a shipbroker but remained active in sports. In 1919, he married Dagny Gleditsch, with whom he had two daughters and two sons. They later divorced and he re-married Anna Kristine (née Olsen), who was almost 20 years his junior. The couple had one more son.