Colin Frank Slater (12 April 1934 – 17 May 2000) was a former

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...

er who played with

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in the

Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). It ...

(VFL). Slater played at Ringwood for three years in the Eastern Suburban Football League, then onto Richmond in 1953. Slater won the Richmond reserves best and fairest in 195 Slater was captain-coach of Redcliffe in the

Sunraysia Football League The Sunraysia Football and Netball League, also known simply as the SFNL is an Australian rules league in the Sunraysia district of north-west Victoria and south-west New South Wales. Nine clubs – Mildura, South Mildura, Imperials, Irymple, Re ...

from 1957 to 1961, coaching them to a flag in 1959 and runners up in 1960. Slater then coached Tatura in the

Goulburn Valley Football League The Goulburn Valley Football Netball League is an Australian rules football and netball competition based in the Goulburn Valley region of Victoria, Australia. It is a member of the Victorian Country Football League and has won the Victorian Co ...

in 1961 and 1962, before taking on the captain-coach role at Mangoplah in 1963.

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Frank Slater Profile
at Tigerland Archive {{DEFAULTSORT:Slater, Frank 1934 births 2000 deaths Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Richmond Football Club players