Jim_Lynch_(Australian_footballer)

Jim Lynch (Australian footballer)

Jim Lynch (Australian footballer)

Australian rules footballer

Jim Lynch (25 October 1883 – 15 June 1919) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy and South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[2]

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Family

He married Jessie McWilliam in 1914.

Football

Fitzroy (VFL)

Recruited by Fitzroy from the Collingwood Trades Football Club in 1909, as a wing and rover — he had been the captain of Collingwood Trades in 1908.[3]

South Melbourne (VFL)

He was cleared from Fitzroy to South Melbourne on 4 May 1910.[4]

Death

He died of "pneumonic influenza" at Stockton, New South Wales on 15 June 1919.[5][6]

Notes

  1. [1]
    "THE PLAY AND THE PLAYERS". The Herald. No. 10, 460. Victoria, Australia. 30 April 1909. p. 2.
  2. [2]
    Holmesby & Main (2014), p.533.
  3. [3]
    The Play and the Players, The Herald, (Friday 30 April 1909), p.3.
  4. [4]
    Football, The Age, (Thursday, 5 May 1910), p.10.
  5. [5]
    Deaths: Lynch, The Age, (Saturday, 21 June 1919), p.5.
  6. [6]
    Stockton, The Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate, (Tuesday, 17 Jun 1919), p.3.

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