Bob Quinn (Australian footballer)

Bob Quinn
Bob Quinn being carried off the ground after a win
Personal information
Full name	Robert Berrima Quinn
Nickname(s)	Bob
Date of birth	9 April 1915
Place of birth	Birkenhead, South Australia
Date of death	12 September 2008(2008-09-12) (aged 93)
Place of death	Adelaide, South Australia
Original team(s)	Semaphore Centrals
Height	167 cm (5 ft 6 in)
Weight	67 kg (148 lb)
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1933–1947	Port Adelaide	239 (386)
1944	Port/Torrens (WWII)	12 (28)
Representative team honours
Years	Team	Games (Goals)
1936–1947	South Australia	15 (26)
Coaching career³
Years	Club	Games (W–L–D)
1939–40, 1945–47	Port Adelaide	≈80
1953	South Australia	4 (3–1–0) 75.00%
¹ Playing statistics correct to the end of 1947. ³ Coaching statistics correct as of 1953.
Career highlights
Club 2x Magarey Medal (1938, 1945) 3x Port Adelaide premiership player (1936, 1937, 1939) Port Adelaide captain (1939–40, 1945–47) 4x Port Adelaide best and fairest (1937, 1938, 1945, 1947) 2x Port Adelaide leading goalkicker (1937, 1945) Representative South Australia captain (1945, 1946, 1947) 15 games for South Australia All-Australian captain (1947) Coaching Port Adelaide premiership coach (1939) Honours Australian Football Hall of Fame (1996) South Australian Football Hall of Fame (2002) Port Adelaide's greatest team (left half forward)

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Robert Berrima "Bob" Quinn MM (9 April 1915 – 12 September 2008) was a champion Australian rules footballer with the Port Adelaide Football Club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL), and a decorated soldier of the Second World War.

Quinn was born in Birkenhead, South Australia, the third of four sons (Tom, George and Jack Jnr) of John (Jack) Quinn, Sr, a leading footballer of the 1890s and 1900s who captained Port Adelaide Football Club in 1904 and 1905 and represented South Australia. Jack Quinn was a Port Adelaide wharf labourer and gave Quinn the middle name "Berrima" in memory of the SS Berrima, a troop ship that Quinn Snr worked on prior to Bob Quinn's birth.

Quinn went to the Le Fevre Peninsula School. Later Quinn would join the Semaphore Centrals Football Club as a junior.

The Port River lapped only yards from the back door of the Quinn's Birkenhead family home, and twice weekly Bob and his father, Jack, rowed across where the Birkenhead Bridge has since been built, climbed up a ladder to the wharf, and walked to Alberton Oval.

Quinn made his debut for Port Adelaide in 1933 as a rover and quickly gained a reputation of being one of the leading players in South Australia.

Quinn impressed observers from early in the season, with one reporting that "Quinn is practically assured of a position in the side as a rover. His displays in both trial games were full of merit."

Port started slowly in the 1934 season, despite a 131-point win over Glenelg Football Club, but improved markedly in the second half of the home and away season, showing a "machine-like" efficiency and winning their last seven games comfortably to finish minor premiers and clear flag favourites.

In the first semi final, Port Adelaide again defeated Glenelg comfortably, this time by 65 points, and had a week's break while Glenelg played Sturt Football Club for the right to play Port in the Grand Final. Glenelg won but Port went into the Grand Final as heavy favourites, with Quinn expected to star.

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