Patrick William Fricker (9 March 1916 – 24 August 1970) 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 and former captain of the

Collingwood Football Club The Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed the Magpies or colloquially the Pies, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition. ...

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).AFL Tables – Pat Fricker Statistics
/ref> Fricker was named the captain of Collingwood in 1944 after

Jack Regan John Vincent Regan (12 September 1912 – 11 August 1988) was an Australian rules footballer who represented Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1930s and 1940s. Playing career Recruited from Northcote, Regan str ...

left the club after 1943. Fricker captained Collingwood for only one year as his last game was in round 12 of 1944.

Alby Pannam Albert Constantine Pannam (19 April 1914 – 17 March 1993) was an Australian rules footballer who played in the VFL between 1933 and 1943 and then again in 1945 for the Collingwood Football Club. He then was captain/coach for the Richmon ...

took over the captaincy in 1945. Fricker was the twenty third captain of the

and played 71 games at VFL level over a span of nine years. He played in the losing Grand Final of 1938.

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* * 1916 births 1970 deaths Collingwood Football Club players Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) 20th-century Australian sportsmen {{AFL-bio-1916-stub