David James Baxter (15 December 1910 – 2 December 1978) was an
Australian rules football
Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified ...
er who played in the
Victorian Football League
The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football competition in Australia operated by the Australian Football League (AFL) as a second-tier, regional, semi-professional competition. It includes teams from clubs based in east ...
(VFL) between 1934 and 1936 for the
Richmond Football Club
The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed the Tigers or colloquially the Tiges, is a professional Australian rules football team competing in the Australian Football League (AFL). Founded in 1885 in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond, Victoria, Ric ...
.
Baxter's son, David Junior, was a member of the Tigers' under-19s 1973 premiership side and his brother-in-law,
Leo Merrett, was a member of Richmond's 1943 senior premiership team.
Baxter later served in the
Volunteer Defence Corps as part of the Australian Army during World War II.
Footnotes
References
* Hogan P: ''The Tigers Of Old'', Richmond FC, (Melbourne), 1996.
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Richmond Football Club players
Richmond Football Club premiership players
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
1910 births
1978 deaths
Volunteer Defence Corps soldiers
VFL/AFL premiership players
20th-century Australian sportsmen
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