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Richard 'Dick' Dunn OAM (1920–2006) was an Australian rugby league footballer and coach in the New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership (NSWRFL). Dunn played 134 matches for the Eastern Suburbs club in the years (1938–47). A local junior of that club, Dunn grew up idolising the senior players, carrying the kit bags of legends like Dave Brown and Ray Stehr; a few years later he was playing alongside of them. Dunn played most of his career in the centres though in later years he moved to lock forward. Dunn played in four premiership deciders in his career, winning in 1940 and 1945. Dunn is best remembered for the 1945 Grand Final in which he scored 19 of East's 22 points, a record that still stands today for the most points scored in a premiership decider. In an interview with Sean Fagan, Dunn recalls the final minutes of the match – “Yes well the situation was this, the game was very, very close. They led us 10 to 5 at half time and were playing a mighty game of football. Following his retirement from the game as a player he became a prominent administrator, serving as vice president of the NSWRL and chairman of rugby league's judiciary panel. He was also the coach of Easts in 1960, losing to St George in that year's Grand Final. For his services, Dunn was made a life member of the Eastern Suburbs, the NSWRL and Australian Rugby League (ARL) and was a recipient of an Order of Australia O.A.M for his services to Rugby League. He was also coach of the New South Wales team in the 1960s. He was granted a life membership of Eastern Suburbs Rugby League, because as a director of the Eastern Suburbs Leagues Club, he was one of the original directors who negotiated the site of the present Rugby League club which had originally started when Dunn was the social secretary of Easts in the 1950s in two little rooms at the northern end of the promenade at Bondi Beach. Later functions were held at the Bondi Pavilion and then at a hotel at Bondi Junction. Eastern Suburbs Leagues Club had humble beginnings and if not for men like Dick Dunn and his fellow directors, like Bob Stuart and others, the "Roosters" or boys from Bondi as they are now known may never have had a club to celebrate their victories. Dunn was also a sergeant in the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) stationed firstly at Scheyville NSW as a searchlights operator and later in the Transport Corps near Newcastle. He worked as manager of the Morley Johnson's store opposite Sydney Town Hall - whose motto was "everything for the home" from age 16. He met his wife Margaret at the store. After Morley Johnsons closed its doors in the 1960s, Dunn worked for Miles Furniture and retired at 65 to spend more time with his beloved wife (who died in 1990). At the time of his death in 2006, Dunn was age 86. ==References== * Various yearbooks; David Middleton 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dick Dunn (rugby league)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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