For the fictional character, see List of Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. characters § Private First Class and later Corporal Gilbert 'Duke' Slater.
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American football player
Duke Slater
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Position:
Tackle
Personal information
Born:
(1898-12-09)December 9, 1898 Normal, Illinois, U.S.
Died:
August 14, 1966(1966-08-14) (aged 67) Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Height:
6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Weight:
215 lb (98 kg)
Career information
High school:
Clinton (Clinton, Iowa)
College:
Iowa (1918–1921)
Career history
Milwaukee Badgers (1922)
Rock Island Independents (1922–1926)
Chicago Cardinals (1926–1931)
Career highlights and awards
4× First-team All-Pro (1923, 1925, 1927, 1929)
2× Second-team All-Pro (1924, 1930)
National champion (1921)
Consensus All-American (1921)
Third-team All-American (1919)
3× First-team All-Big Ten (1919–1921)
Career NFL statistics
Games played:
90
Games started:
87
Touchdowns scored:
1
Player stats at PFR
Pro Football Hall of Fame
College Football Hall of Fame
Frederick Wayman "Duke" Slater (December 9, 1898 – August 14, 1966) was an American football player and judge. He was enshrined in the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951[1] and was named to the Pro Football Hall of Fame's Centennial Class in 2020.[2]
Slater played college football for the Iowa Hawkeyes from 1918 to 1921.[3] Playing the tackle position on the line, he was a first-team All-American in 1921[4] and a member of the Hawkeyes 1921 national championship team. Slater joined the National Football League (NFL) the following year, becoming the first black lineman in league history.[5] He played ten seasons in the NFL for the Milwaukee Badgers, the Rock Island Independents[a] and the Chicago Cardinals, garnering six all-pro selections.[6]
Slater earned his law degree in 1928 and began to practice law as a Chicago attorney.[7] In 1948, he was elected to the Cook County Municipal Court, becoming just the second African-American judge in Chicago history.[8] Slater served as a Chicago judge for nearly two decades until his death in 1966.[9]
^"Duke Slater (1951) - Hall of Fame". National Football Foundation.
^"Tagliabue, Steve Sabol among 13 picked for HOF". ESPN.com. January 15, 2020.
^"Official Athletics Website of the Iowa Hawkeyes". hawkeyesports.com. Archived from the original on January 4, 2017.
^Rozendaal, Neal (2012). Duke Slater: Pioneering Black NFL Player and Judge, pgs. 71-72 (ISBN 978-0-7864-6957-4)
^Neal Rozendaal, "Remembering Duke Slater", The Coffin Corner, vol. 34, no. 6 (November–December 2012), p. 4.
^"Duke Slater Stats". Pro-Football-Reference.com.
^"Old Gold: Duke Slater the Hawkeye Trailblazer | University of Iowa". magazine.foriowa.org.
^Haugh, David (August 5, 2017). "Duke Slater, pioneer Chicago Cardinal and city judge, deserves Hall of Fame spot". chicagotribune.com.
^Rozendaal, Duke Slater: Pioneering Black NFL Player and Judge, p. 175
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