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Position: | Tackle | ||||||
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Born: | Normal, Illinois, U.S. | December 9, 1898||||||
Died: | August 14, 1966 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. | (aged 67)||||||
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 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]
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