Gerry Lynn Explained

Gerry Lynn
Fullname:Gerard Ian Lynn
Birth Date:24 August 1955
Death Date:[1]
Death Place:Moormbool West
Originalteam:Warragul[2]
Height:175 cm
Weight:76 kg
Statsend:1975
Years1:1974–1975
Club1:Hawthorn
Games Goals1:3 (0)

Gerard Ian Lynn (24 August 1955 – 12 June 1992) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

A rover from Warragul, Lynn made his league debut in round 11 of the 1974 VFL season, against North Melbourne at Arden Street and made his only other appearance of the year four weeks later at Princes Park in a win over South Melbourne.[3] In 1975 and 1976 he broke into the seniors just once, with a strong Hawthorn team making the grand final in both seasons. He polled the second most votes in the 1975 Gardiner Medal.[4]

In 1992 Lynn was killed, along with four others, when the single-engine Piper Cherokee he was traveling in crash into a farm at the Victorian town of Moormbool West. He had been flying to a harness-racing meeting at Ouyen.[5]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Gerard Ian Lynn . Southern Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust.
  2. Book: Holmesby, Russell. Main. Jim. The Encyclopedia Of AFL Footballers. BAS Publishing. 2007. 978-1-920910-78-5.
  3. Web site: Gerry Lynn. AFL Tables.
  4. The Age,"Gardiner Medal to Demon", 4 September 1975, p. 30
  5. News: https://web.archive.org/web/20110706110746/http://www.ouyen.com.au/ouyen-news/1992/6/12/five-die-in-country-air-crash/. The Age. Five Die In Country Air Crash. 12 June 1992. Bruce. Tobin. 6 July 2011. 24 December 2010. bot: unknown.