Fred Froude

Fred Froude
Fred Froude
	Froude during his Collingwood career
Personal information
Full name	Frederick Ernest Froude
Date of birth	3 July 1910
Place of birth	Mount Lyell, Tasmania
Date of death	16 June 1978 (aged 67)
Place of death	Kew, Victoria
Height	174 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	82 kg (181 lb)
Playing career1
Years	Club
1930–1939	Collingwood
Coaching career3
Years	Club
1948–1950	St Kilda
	1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1939. 3 Coaching statistics correct as of 1950.
	Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Frederick Ernest Froude (3 July 1910 – 16 June 1978)^[2] was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood and coached St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Although Froude played most of his career as a half back flanker, he started as a forward and kicked 30 goals in the 1931 VFL season.^[3]^[4] He played in five grand finals for three premierships; 1930, 1935 and 1936.^[3] In 1948, nine years after retiring, Froude returned to the VFL as coach of St Kilda.^[5] Before the war he had been coach of Brighton.^[6]

References

^ WW2 Nominal Roll - Frederick Ernest Froude Noting that Mount Lyell, was the name of a small community located on the ridge between Gormanston, Tasmania and the Mount Lyell mine workings on the south west side of the western end of Mount Lyell, Tasmania – see The Peaks of Lyell for more details.
^ "Fred Froude". Collingwood Forever. Retrieved 6 December 2014.
^ ^a ^b "Biography". Australian Football.com.
^ "Fred Froude". AFL Tables.
^ "Coaching Record". AFL Tables.
^ "Froude Coach of Brighton". The Argus. Melbourne. 26 February 1941. p. 14. Retrieved 18 March 2014 – via National Library of Australia.