{{Short description|Australian rules footballer (1869–1919)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2016}} {{Use Australian English|date=July 2016}} {{Infobox AFL biography | name = Fred Waugh | fullname = Richard Frederick Waugh | birth_date = {{birth date|1869|12|01|df=y}} | birth_place = South Melbourne, Victoria | death_date = {{death date and age|1919|06|23|1869|12|01|df=y}} | death_place = Melbourne Hospital<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1483546 |title=Family Notices |newspaper=The Argus |location=Melbourne, Australia |date=28 June 1919 |page=13}}</ref> | height = <!-- 123 cm --> | weight = <!-- ### kg --> | statsend = 1900 | years1 = 1897, 1900 | club1 = {{AFL SM}} | games_goals1 = 22 (3) }}
'''Richard Frederick Waugh''' (1 December 1869 – 23 June 1919) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).<ref name=encyc>{{cite book |title=The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 |last=Holmesby|first=Russell|last2=Main|first2=Jim |year=2014 |edition=10th |isbn=978-1-921496-32-5 |publisher=BAS Publishing |location=Seaford, Victoria |page=931}}</ref>
Waugh was unable to play in South Melbourne's team for the Round 11 game with St Kilda in 1897 after attempting suicide.<ref name="Ross">{{cite book |last1=Ross |first1=John |title=100 Years of Australian Football |date=1996 |publisher=Penguin Books |location=Ringwood, Victoria |isbn=978-0670868148 |page=39}}</ref> He had been spurned by his lover, and had become disconsolate. His mother found him in his room covered in blood, having cut his throat with a blunt knife. He missed severing his windpipe and blood vessels, and a doctor was able to repair the wounds.<ref name="Ross" /><ref>[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/9174399 A Footballer's Romance: Rejected by his Sweetheart: He Attempts Suicide, ''The Argus'', (Monday, 12 July 1897), p.5.]</ref>
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== External links == *{{AFL Tables | F/Fred_Waugh }} *{{AustralianFootball | fred+waugh/1120 }}
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