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{{Short description|Australian rules footballer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2015}}
{{Use Australian English|date=September 2015}}
{{Infobox AFL biography
| name = Alec Sloan
| image = Alec = Sloan.jpg
| caption = Sloan in 1899
| alt =
| fullname = Alexander = AlecBarclay Sloan
| caption =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1870|12|12}}
| fullname = Alec Sloan
| birth_place = [[Smeaton, = Victoria]]
| nickname =
| birth_date death_date = {{Birthdeath date and age|df=yes1938|6|29|1870|12|12|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Ivanhoe, = Victoria]]
| birth_place =
| originalteam = [[Brittania Football = Club|Brittania]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|1938|6|29|1870|12|12|df=yes}}
| height =
| death_place =
| weight =
| originalteam = Brittania
| position = Half back
| heightweight =
| repstatsend = 1900
| position = Half back
| years1 = 1892–1896
| years = 1897–1902
| clubs club1 = {{AFL Fit}} (VFA)
| games(goals) games_goals1 = 6674 (08)
| years years2 = 1897–1902
| sooyears = 1900
| club2 = {{AFL Fit}}
| sooteams = [[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]]
| soogames(goals) games_goals2 = 166 (0)
| sooyears1 = 1900
| statsend = 1902
| sooteams sooteam1 = [[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]]
| repstatsend = 1900
| soogames_goals1 = 1 (0)
| careerhighlights =
| statsend = 1902
* Fitzroy premiership captain [[1898 VFL Grand Final|1898]], [[1899 VFL Grand Final|1899]]
| careerhighlights = =
* Fitzroy [[List of Fitzroy Football Club captains|captain]] 1898–1900
* VFA premiership player: [[1895 VFA season|1895]]
* Fitzroy2× [[List of Australian Football League premiers|VFL premiership captainplayer]]: [[1898 VFL Grand Final|1898]], [[1899 VFL Grand Final|1899]]
* Fitzroy [[List of Fitzroy Football Club captains|Fitzroy captain]]: 1898–1900
}}
 
'''AlecAlexander Barclay Sloan''' (12 December 1870 – 29 June 1938) was an [[Australian rules football]]er who played withfor the [[Fitzroy Football Club|Fitzroy]] in the [[Victorian Football Association]] (VFA) and the [[Australian Football League|Victorian Football League]] (VFL).
 
Sloan was a member of Fitzroy's inaugural VFLpremiership team in 18971895 and captained the club from 1898 to 1900. He played most of his football at half back and was a premiership -winning captain in 1898 and 1899. This made him not only Fitzroy's first ever VFL premiership captain but also the league's first ever grand final winning captain, with the 1897 flag having been decided on a round robin system.
 
==See also==
* [[The Footballers' Alphabet]]
 
==References==
* [http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article197540599 'Follower', "The Footballers' Alphabet", ''The Leader'', (Saturday, 23 July 1898), p.17.]
{{reflist}}
*{{cite book|last=Donald|first=Chris|title=Fitzroy: For the Love of the Jumper|year=2005|publisher=Pan Australia|isbn=9781877029189|pages=25–27}}
 
==External links==
{{Commons category}}
*{{AflRleagueAFL Tables|ref=A/Alec_Sloan.html}}
 
{{1898/99 Fitzroy dual premiership players}}
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[[Category:1870 births]]
[[Category:Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australiastate)]]
[[Category:Fitzroy Football Club (VFA) players]]
[[Category:Fitzroy Football Club players]]
[[Category:Fitzroy Football Club premiership players]]
[[Category:1938 deaths]]
[[Category:VFL/AFL premiership players]]