Long Association With Richmond
However, it was Dunn's long service to the Richmond Football Club that brought him the most fame. He first became involved with the club in the 1930s through railwayman and Tiger player Martin Bolger. A vice-president from 1940, Dunn formed Richmond's first coterie group in 1963. The following year, he was elected president with the specific brief to negotiate the move of the club's home games to the Melbourne Cricket Ground for 1965. From there, Dunn oversaw an era of great success, underwritten by the extra finances gained from the move and the efforts of the coterie. Under his administration, the Tigers broke a 24-year premiership drought in 1967 and followed up with another triumph two years later. Unfortunately, Dunn's health then began to fail. He had battled diabetes since the early 1960s, and finally succumbed to a coronary occlusion on 26 August 1971 at his Metung holiday home. Survived by the three children of his two marriages, Dunn was buried in St Kilda cemetery and his estate was sworn for probate at $239,264. Dunn was granted life membership at Richmond in 1946, and elected to the club's hall of fame in 2002.
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