Jack_Lyons_(footballer,_born_1919)

Jack Lyons (footballer, born 1919)

Jack Lyons (footballer, born 1919)

Australian rules footballer

John Gerard Lyons (5 December 1919 – 21 March 1955) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon and North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1940s.[1]

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Recruited locally from Essendon CYMS, Lyons played 17 of a possible 20 games in 1945, his debut season.[2] A hard running back pocket, he polled well in Essendon's "Best and Fairest" count that season to finish runner-up to Wally Buttsworth.[3] Despite being a regular member of the team for most of the 1946 VFL season, Lyons wasn't selected in the finals series and crossed over to North Melbourne at the end of the year.

Lyons missed just two games in his first year with North Melbourne and polled nine votes in the Brownlow Medal count, finishing as his club's second best vote getter.

He was killed in a car accident, aged 35, in 1955.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. BAS Publishing. ISBN 978-1-920910-78-5.
  2. [2]
    "Jack Lyons". AFL Tables.
  3. [3]
    "Essendon Football Club - Team Players - Jack Lyons". Essendonfc.com.au. Archived from the original on 12 October 2009. Retrieved 27 December 2010.
  4. [4]
    "'Death corner' safe at 40, but". The Argus. Melbourne: National Library of Australia. 22 March 1955. p. 1. Retrieved 24 September 2014.


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