Ernest Wilfred Schunke (26 October 1882 – 6 November 1922) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
[1] Schunke was a boundary umpire for 11 games in the 1904 VFL season.
[2] It was the year that the VFL introduced boundary umpires.
[5] Recruited by Richmond from Carlton Districts,[6] he played in the final six rounds of the 1909 VFL season.
[7] 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,[8] when a cutting knife from a shaping machine, which had come loose, flew through the air and struck him just above the heart.