# Fred Waugh

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{{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](/source/South_Melbourne%2C_Victoria)
| death_date = {{death date and age|1919|06|23|1869|12|01|df=y}}
| death_place = [Melbourne Hospital](/source/Royal_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 football](/source/Australian_rules_football)er who played with [South Melbourne](/source/Sydney_Swans) in the [Victorian Football League](/source/Victorian_Football_League_(1897%E2%80%931989)) (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>

== Notes ==
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== External links ==
*{{AFL Tables | F/Fred_Waugh }}
*{{AustralianFootball | fred+waugh/1120 }}

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Category:1869 births
Category:1919 deaths
Category:Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
Category:South Melbourne Football Club (VFA) players
Category:Sydney Swans players
Category:People from the Colony of Victoria
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