Frederick Victor "Fred" Fairweather (born 3 June 1913) was an Australian rules football

Australian rules football

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er who played with North Melbourne

North Melbourne Football Club

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 in the Victorian Football League

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 (VFL).

Fairweather, who played in the ruck, was a later comer to VFL football, just two weeks shy of his 31st birthday when he started playing for North Melbourne. Born in London

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, he played his initial football for South Melbourne City, before joining Port Melbourne

Port Melbourne Football Club

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 in 1937. He was a member of Port's 1940 and 1941 premiership teams.

After having served with the AIF

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, Fairweather played 15 games for North Melbourne in 1944 and appeared in all 21 games that they played the following year, including a semi final. He was club captain for the 1946 VFL season

1946 VFL season

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, then retired at the end of the year, to take up a position as captain-coach of Carnegie.