Background
Spalding grew up in Perth, Western Australia, where he attended Wesley College. His father, George Spalding was a well-known West Australian National Football League (WANFL) player with the Perth Football Club.
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Earl Spalding
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Career
After leaving school, Spalding played for 63 games for Perth between 1983 and 1986. He also played four games of first-class cricket for Western Australia as a fast bowler, during the 1984/85 season, taking 12 wickets at an average of 25.66. He started his VFL/American Federation of Labor-Congress career with Melbourne and was there from 1987 to 1991, playing 109 games.
The following season he signed with Carlton and played 22 games for the year.
He played his last senior American Federation of Labor-Congress game in 1997. Earl played 32 games over the next two seasons, including their 1998 WAFL Premiership winning team, retiring after the 1999 season having played 314 senior games of football in the WAFL and American Federation of Labor-Congress. Spalding was the reserves and assistant coach at East Fremantle in 2000 before becoming the league coach in 2001.
He resigned from the position at the end of the 2002 season, and since then has working with the Fremantle Football Club as an assistant coach.
