Classy wingman Jack Lynch remembered as one of the greats

WEST Adelaide Football Club's first All-Australian, Jack Lynch, has passed away.

WEST Adelaide Football Club's first All-Australian, Jack Lynch, has passed away.

A brilliant, dashing wingman who was a regular South Australian state representative from 1950 to 1954, Lynch became the Bloods’s first All-Australian in 1953.

He played 147 league games for West in'an 11-season career from 1948-58 and last year was selected in the club’s Team of the Centuries.

An inaugural inductee into the Bloods’ Hall of Fame in 2005, he was inducted into the South Australian Football Hall of Fame the following year.

Lynch represented SA 16 times.

In his first season with West in 1948, he won the Sam Sucking Medal as the club’s best first-year player and claimed the best and fairest award in 1952.

Lynch played in three losing grand finals — all to Port Adelaide in 1954, 1956 and 1958.

He was a SANFL Player Life Member who was renowned for his clean ball-handling skills and precise kicking.

Lynch was named in The Advertiser Team of the Year three times — in 1952, 1953 and 1954.