Gerard Ian Lynn (24 August 1955 – 12 June 1992) was an

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er who played with

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in the

Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). It ...

(VFL). A rover from Warragul, Lynn made his league debut in round 11 of the

1974 VFL season The 1974 VFL season was the 78th season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured twelve clubs, ran from 6 April until 28 September, and comprised a 2 ...

, 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. 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. 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.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lynn, Gerry 1955 births 1992 deaths Hawthorn Football Club players Frankston Football Club players Warragul Football Club players Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Accidental deaths in Victoria (state) Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in Australia Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1992