title: Jim Lynch (Australian footballer)
text: # Jim Lynch (Australian 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).
  
  ## 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.
  
  