Hugh Dunbar

DOB: 27 June, 1903
Died: 1984 or 85

Debut: Round 1, 1922 against South Melbourne at Lake Oval
Last MFC Game: Semi Final Replay 1928 against Collingwood at MCG

Games: 97 (100 total)
Goals: 48 (49 total)
Career Statistics

From: Carlsruhe

Number: 29 1922, 28 1923-1928

Honours
Premiership Player - 1926
150 Heroes selection
Victorian state player - 1923, 1924, 1926

The youngest of the Dunbar brothers, Hugh avoided the injury problems of Edgar and Harold and ended up having the most productive career. He might never have been signed at all, but on a visit to the Dunbar family property secretary Andrew Manzie saw him at work and when his brothers vouched that he could play "a bit", Manzie signed him and was rewarded with the best of the bunch.

In 1925 Dunbar played for the VFL against a Ballarat League side.

Described by Bert Chadwick as one of the best ruckmen in the game, Dunbar played at centre-half back in the 1926 premiership side. After the match the side went back to his Bentleigh milk bar to celebrate.

His next two years were less productive due to injury, with acute appendicitis ruining the next season and he left Melbourne at the end of 1928. In 1930 he finished his career with three games at St. Kilda before coaching amateur side Ormond.

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Notes
Both the 1984 and 1985 Annual Reports have him in the Obituary section

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