Kilda Cricket Club. All up, he played 25 First XI games for Fitzroy CC between 1930/31 and 1933/34. In 1944, Bunton was stationed with the First Australian Imperial Force in Wallgrove, Sydney, and played cricket with the Petersham Cricket Club. Life outside football Bunton enlisted in the Australian Army in 1942 and rose to the rank of corporal. He spent the 1946 SANFL season as an SANFL football field umpire and earned a very good reputation in a very short time, umpiring the 1946 SANFL Preliminary Final, with many believing he was very stiff not to umpire the grand final the following week. In 1949, 1950 and 1951, Bunton was the feature football writer for the Adelaide newspaper The Mail. Death and tributes On Thursday 1 September 1955, Bunton was critically injured when his car crashed into three gum trees eleven miles north of Gawler, South Australia. He was alone in the car, and he was treated at the scene for severe head injuries, a punctured lung, a fractured collarbone, fractured ribs, and shock. On Saturday morning, two days later, he rallied slightly to encourage his son Haydn Jr. in an important match for that day. "Go out and do your best, son." Bunton was declared dead on the night of Monday 5 September at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. He was buried at North Road Cemetery in Nailsworth, South Australia. In 1996, Bunton was named at left forward pocket in the AFL Team of the Century, and he was made an inaugural legend in the Australian Football Hall of Fame. Bunton was inducted into the Ovens & Murray Football League Hall of Fame in 2018. Reputation During his playing career, Bunton was considered by fans of the sport as a player of integrity, who rarely if ever engaged in unduly rough play. His fame was enhanced by him having his own radio show on 3DB, and he had a Melbourne newspaper column when he played with Fitzroy. He later had radio programs in Perth and Adelaide. He was regarded as a sex symbol in the 1930s, and his looks were compared to those of film star Rudolf Valentino. During his period with Fitzroy, he was naturally a marked man, but almost perfect balance enabled him to keep out of trouble. He had uncanny ball sense and great speed, was a fine mark, and an accurate, if not outstanding, kick. The