He originally commenced his footy career for University Blues in the Victorian Amateur Football Association.

[1] Tunbridge refused on ideological grounds to accept payment from Melbourne Football Club, as he believed that players should play for the love of the game.

The only money he did accept was compensation for the cost of petrol, given the long drive between Ballarat and Melbourne (eight pence/year in his Volkswagen).

[2] Tunbridge earned a nomination on the forward flank for the Melbourne Team of the Century, but this position was ultimately awarded to Garry Lyon.

This Australian rules football biography of a person born in the 1930s is a stub.