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Australian rules footballer

Australian rules footballer
Ernie Schunke
Personal information
Full name Ernest Wilfred Schunke
Date of birth (1882-10-26)26 October 1882
Place of birth Carlton, Victoria
Date of death 6 November 1922(1922-11-06) (aged 40)
Place of death South Melbourne, Victoria
Original team(s) Carlton Districts
Height 169 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s) Wing
Playing career
Years Club Games (Goals)
1909 Richmond 6 (0)
Playing statistics correct to the end of 1909.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Ernest Wilfred Schunke (26 October 1882 – 6 November 1922) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He has the unusual distinction of having been a VFL umpire, before his VFL playing career.

Family

The son of August Henry Schunke (1850–1928), a butcher, and Elizabeth Schunke, née Coleman, Ernest grew up with three siblings, Charles Henry Schunke (1879–1924) who played for Carlton, Edwin James (1887–1974), and Rose Elizabeth Langstreth (1885–1940), née Schunke.

He married Helena Francesca "Nellie" Spackman in 1913. They had two children: Joy and Ivy.

Football

Umpire

Schunke was a boundary umpire for 11 games in the 1904 VFL season. It was the year that the VFL introduced boundary umpires.

Richmond

Recruited by Richmond from Carlton Districts, he played in the final six rounds of the 1909 VFL season.

Death

He was killed almost instantaneously in a work accident at the James Moore and Son's timber yards in South Melbourne on 6 November 1922, when a cutting knife from a shaping machine, which had come loose, flew through the air and struck him just above the heart.

Footnotes

  1. ^ "Family Notices". The Argus. Melbourne. 7 November 1922. p. 1. Retrieved 22 May 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. ^ "AFLUA Player umpires: Ernest Schunke". AFLUA. Retrieved 22 May 2015.
  3. Deaths: Schunke, The Argus, (Saturday, 3 March 1928), p.17; The Human Interest: Wills and Estates, The Weekly Times, (Saturday, 2 June 1928), p.9.
  4. Judicial and Law Notices (Christiana Dorathea Schunke), The Argus, (Tuesday, 2 April 1895), p.3.
  5. Lovett, Michael (2004). AFL 2004 – The Official Statistical History Of The AFL. AFL Publishing. ISBN 0-9580300-5-7.
  6. Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia Of AFL Footballers. BAS Publishing. ISBN 9781920910785.
  7. "Ernie Schunke – Games Played". AFL Tables. Retrieved 22 May 2015.
  8. Deaths: Schunke, The Argus, (Tuesday, 7 November 1922), p.1.
  9. A Machine Fatality: Steel Fragment Pierces Workman's Chest, The Age, (Tuesday, 7 November 1922), p.8; Latest News, The Horsham Times, (Tuesday, 7 November 1922), p.5.
  10. Struck to the Heart: Timber Worker Killed by Cutter, The Herald, (Thursday, 23 November 1922), p.4; Timber Mill Fatality: Question of Machine Guards, The Argus, (Friday, 24 November 1922), p.7; Fatality at Timber Works: Steel Cutter Penetrates Man's Body, The Age, (Friday, 24 November 1922), p.11.

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