Trent Cummings is a former Australian rules football

Australian rules football

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...

er who played with Fitzroy

Fitzroy Football Club

The Fitzroy Football Club, formerly nicknamed The Lions, is an Australian rules football club formed in 1883 to represent the inner Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy, Victoria and was a foundation member club of the Victorian Football League on its inception in 1897...

 and the West Coast Eagles

West Coast Eagles

The West Coast Eagles are an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League. The club is based in Perth, Western Australia. The club was founded in 1986 and played its first games in the 1987 season. Its current home ground is Subiaco Oval...

 in the Australian Football League

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 (AFL).

Cummings, the third member of his family to play for Fitzroy, was seen mostly on a wing or at half forward. His great-grandfather, Joe Johnson

Joe Johnson (Australian footballer)

Joe Johnson was an Australian rules footballer notable as he is recognised as being the first ever Indigenous Australian to play in the VFL/AFL....

, was a Fitzroy footballer and credited with being the first Indigenous Australian to play in the Victorian Football League. An elder brother, Robert Cummings, also played for Fitzroy and their father, Percy, was a Hawthorn player.

The sixth selection of the 1993 AFL Draft

1993 AFL Draft

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, Cummings spent three seasons with Fitzroy and despite making 27 appearances he only played in three wins. As a consequence of their on field failings, the club merged and moved to Brisbane at the end of the 1996 season. Cummings didn't make the new Brisbane Lions

Brisbane Lions

The Brisbane Lions is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League . The club is based in Brisbane, Queensland. The club was formed from the merger of the Brisbane Bears and the Fitzroy Lions in 1996...

 squad but was secured by the West Coast Eagles with pick 57 in the national draft, despite having recently undergone a knee reconstruction.

He played just two games at his new club in 1997 and instead spent most of the year in the WAFL with Peel Thunder

Peel Thunder Football Club

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. A knee injury, sustained in a practise match during the 1998 pre-season, ended his league career.

In 2003 he sued both the Eagles and Subiaco Oval

Subiaco Oval

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authorities for loss of earning and received a six figure settlement.