Bill_Flynn_(footballer)

Bill Flynn (footballer)

Bill Flynn (footballer)

Australian rules footballer, born 1907

William Joseph Flynn (26 September 1907 – 24 May 1991) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton and South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

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Family

The son of Timothy Flynn (1866-1924),[2] and Johanna Flynn (1871-1959), née Ahearn, William Joseph Flynn was born at Drouin, Victoria on 26 September 1907.

He married Kathleen Margaret O'Connor (1908-2002) on 16 May 1942.

Football

Flynn tied with Jack Collins in the 1936 Gippsland Football League's best and fairest award, the Trood Award, when playing with Bairnsdale Football Club.[3]

Notes

  1. [1]
    Holmesby & Main (2009), p.270.
  2. [2]
    Death: Flynn, The Argus, (Wednesday, 20 February 1924), p.14.
  3. [3]
    Trood Award Voting: Sale and Bairnsdale Players Tie, The Gippsland Times, (Thursday, 27 August 1936), p.5.

References

  • Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2009). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (8th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. ISBN 978-1-921496-00-4.
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