Jim Lynch (Australian footballer)


Jim Lynch was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy and South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League.

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.

South Melbourne (VFL)

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

Death

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