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| Position: | Tackle | ||||||||
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| Born: | December 9, 1898 Normal, Illinois, U.S. | ||||||||
| Died: | August 14, 1966 (aged 67) Chicago, Illinois, U.S. | ||||||||
| Height: | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | ||||||||
| Weight: | 215 lb (98 kg) | ||||||||
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| High school: | Clinton (Clinton, Iowa) | ||||||||
| College: | Iowa (1918–1921) | ||||||||
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Frederick Wayman "Duke" Slater (December 9, 1898 – August 14, 1966) was an American professional football player and judge. He was enshrined in the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951[1] and was named to the Pro Football Hall of Fame's Centennial Class in 2020.[2]
Slater played college football for the Iowa Hawkeyes from 1918 to 1921.[3] Playing the tackle position on the line, he was a first-team All-American in 1921[4] and a member of the Hawkeyes 1921 national championship team. Slater joined the National Football League (NFL) the following year, becoming the first black lineman in league history.[5] He played ten seasons in the NFL for the Milwaukee Badgers, the Rock Island Independents[a] and the Chicago Cardinals, garnering six all-pro selections.[6]
Slater earned his law degree in 1928 and began to practice law as a Chicago attorney.[7] In 1948, he was elected to the Cook County Municipal Court, becoming just the second African-American judge in Chicago history.[8] Slater served as a Chicago judge for nearly two decades until his death in 1966.[9]
- ^ "Duke Slater (1951) - Hall of Fame". National Football Foundation.
- ^ "Tagliabue, Steve Sabol among 13 picked for HOF". ESPN.com. January 15, 2020.
- ^ "Official Athletics Website of the Iowa Hawkeyes". hawkeyesports.com. Archived from the original on January 4, 2017.
- ^ Rozendaal, Neal (2012). Duke Slater: Pioneering Black NFL Player and Judge, pgs. 71-72 (ISBN 978-0-7864-6957-4)
- ^ Neal Rozendaal, "Remembering Duke Slater", The Coffin Corner, vol. 34, no. 6 (November–December 2012), p. 4.
- ^ "Duke Slater Stats". Pro-Football-Reference.com.
- ^ "Old Gold: Duke Slater the Hawkeye Trailblazer | University of Iowa". magazine.foriowa.org.
- ^ Haugh, David (August 5, 2017). "Duke Slater, pioneer Chicago Cardinal and city judge, deserves Hall of Fame spot". chicagotribune.com.
- ^ Rozendaal, Duke Slater: Pioneering Black NFL Player and Judge, p. 175
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