Fred Waugh

{{Short description|Australian rules footballer (1869–1919)}}

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{{Infobox AFL biography

| name = Fred Waugh

| fullname = Richard Frederick Waugh

| birth_date = {{birth date|1869|12|01|df=y}}

| birth_place = South Melbourne, Victoria

| death_date = {{death date and age|1919|06|23|1869|12|01|df=y}}

| death_place = Melbourne Hospital{{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}}

| height =

| weight =

| 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 footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).{{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}}

Waugh was unable to play in South Melbourne's team for the Round 11 game with St Kilda in 1897 after attempting suicide.{{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}} 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.[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.]