Francis Charlton "Diver" Dunne (13 August 1875 – 16 February 1937) was an

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...

er who played with St Kilda in the

Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). It ...

(VFL), South Fremantle in the West Australian Football Association (WAFA) and Sturt in the

South Australian Football League The South Australian National Football League, or SANFL ( or ''S-A-N-F-L''), is an Australian rules football league based in the Australian state of South Australia. It is also the state's governing body for the sport. Originally formed as the ...

(SAFL).

Family

The son of William Dunne (1833-1889), and Annie Theresa Dunne (1837-1896), née Murphy, Francis Charlton Dunne was born in

Kilmore, Victoria Kilmore () is a town in the Australian state of Victoria. Located north of Melbourne, it is the oldest inland town in Victoria by the combination of age and physical occupation, and because it had unique agricultural attributes to drive that e ...

on 13 August 1875. He married Matilda Bridget Fensling (1877-1960) in Albury in 1902.

Football

Dunne was recruited to St. Kilda from

Albury Albury () is a major regional city in New South Wales, Australia. It is located on the Hume Highway and the northern side of the Murray River. Albury is the seat of local government for the council area which also bears the city's name – the ...

in the

Ovens and Murray Football League The Ovens and Murray Football Netball League (O&MFNL) is an Australian rules football and netball competition containing ten clubs based in north-eastern Victoria, Australia, Victoria, the southern Riverina region of New South Wales, Austral ...

. During his time at South Fremantle and Sturt he was considered one of the best " ruck shepherds" in the game, and represented Western Australia at the 1908 Melbourne Carnival and South Australia at the

1911 Adelaide Carnival The 1911 Adelaide Carnival was the second edition of the Australasian Football Carnival, an Australian rules football interstate competition. It took place from 2 to 12 August at Adelaide Oval. A crowd of 20,000 witnessed South Australia convin ...

Death

He died at

Forestville, South Australia Forestville is an inner southwestern suburb of Adelaide Adelaide ( ) is the capital city of South Australia, the state's largest city and the fifth-most populous city in Australia. "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including ...

on 16 February 1937.Deaths: Dunne, ''The (Adelaide) Advertiser'', (Wednesday, 17 February 1937), p.14.
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