Fred Swift

Fred Swift
Swift with the 1967 VFL premiership cup
Personal information
Full name	Frederick Norman Swift
Date of birth	(1938-07-06)6 July 1938
Date of death	28 April 1983(1983-04-28) (aged 44)
Place of death	Lockwood, Victoria
Original team(s)	Sandhurst (BFL)
Height	183 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	83 kg (183 lb)
Position(s)	Utility
Playing career1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1958–1967	Richmond	146 (41)
Representative team honours
Years	Team	Games (Goals)
1961	Victoria	2
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1967. 2 State and international statistics correct as of 1961.
Career highlights
VFL Premiership player: (1967) Richmond captain: (1967)
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Frederick Norman Swift (6 July 1938 – 28 April 1983) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Richmond Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He also played first grade cricket with the Eaglehawk Cricket Club^[1] in the Bendigo and District Cricket Association.

Swift has a special place in the history of the Richmond Football Club as the captain of the drought-breaking 1967 premiership team. He was murdered during a home invasion at his farm at Lockwood, near Bendigo, Victoria, at the age of 44.