Frank Keppel was an Australian rules football

Australian rules football

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er who played with Geelong

Geelong Football Club

The Geelong Football Club, nicknamed The Cats, is a professional Australian rules football club, named after and based in the city of Geelong, playing in the Australian Football League . The club has been the VFL/AFL premiers nine times, with a record equalling 3 in the AFL era. Geelong has also...

 in the Victorian Football League

Australian Football League

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 (VFL).

Keppel spent much of the 1920s playing with the Thornton Football Club, but was with Cobden

Cobden Football Club

The Cobden Football Club are an Australian rules football club which compete in the Hampden Football League.They are based in the Victorian town of Cobden and have played in the Hampden Football League since 1930.-Maskell Medallists:*John Couttie 1952...

 when he was invited by the Geelong committee to train with the VFL club.

Already 27 years of age, Keppel had a brief stint in the Geelong seconds before appearing with the seniors for the final eight games of the 1927 season.

He played 12 matches in each of the next two seasons and was a wingman in the Geelong team which lost the 1930 VFL Grand Final

1930 VFL Grand Final

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, his last game.