Lyle Ernest Downs (26 July 1896 – 7 July 1921) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
He was educated at the Alfred Crescent State School, in North Fitzroy.
[5][6] During the third quarter of the match against Richmond, at Princes Park on 28 June 1919 Downs "left the field with a strained heart, and it is not likely that he will play again".
[7] Six rounds later he returned to the field, and played against St Kilda, at Princes Park, on 23 August 1919.
This Australian rules football biography of a person born in 1896 is a stub.