title: Allen Lynch (footballer)
text: # Allen Lynch (footballer)
  
  Allen John Lynch (30 July 1938 – 6 June 2021) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Fitzroy Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
  
  ## Football
  
  ### Saturday, 6 July 1963
  
  On 6 July 1963, playing at full-back, he was a member of the young and inexperienced Fitzroy team that comprehensively and unexpectedly defeated Geelong, 9.13 (67) to 3.13 (31) in the 1963 Miracle Match.
  
  