heightweight death_date years clubs statsend coachyears birth_date nickname coachclubs image article_title name
169 ; kg & nbsp ; cm / 80 & nbsp 11 november 1969 1928 -- 1930 1931 -- 1940 port adelaide geelong 1940 1946 -- 1948 11 august 1908 maggie , tommy geelong tommyquinn.jpg tommy quinn
 tom quinn
tommy quinn

tom `` tommy '' quinn -lrb- 11 august 1908 -- 11 november 1969 -rrb- was a leading australian rules footballer of the 1920s and 1930s , playing for port adelaide football club and geelong football club .
born in birkenhead , south australia , the son of former port adelaide captain jack quinn and the older brother of dual magarey medallist bob , quinn showed aptitude for football from a young age , and standing 170 cm tall and built like a tank , quinn made his south australian national football league -lrb- sanfl -rrb- debut for port as a rover in 1928 .
quinn immediately made his mark , becoming a key member of the 1928 port premiership team .
quinn played 59 matches for port in three seasons plus six for south australia before finding himself unemployed in the wake of the great depression .
quinn had attracted interest from victorian football league -lrb- vfl -rrb- clubs at the 1930 adelaide carnival with his performances for south australia , and when geelong offered quinn employment with the ford motor company , a club sponsor , as a machine operator , quinn leapt at the opportunity and transferred to geelong for the 1931 vfl season .
gaining the nickname `` maggie '' for his port adelaide heritage , quinn immediately proved a success in the vfl , being a key player in geelong 's 1931 premiership team and became a firm favorite with geelong fans .
quinn won geelong 's best and fairest awards in 1936 and 1937 and was appointed club vice-captain for the 1937 season , captaining geelong for seven matches when captain reg hickey was injured .
quinn capped off 1937 with a best on ground performance in geelong 's 1937 grand final win , gaining 31 possessions and six marks in a performance considered `` completely error free '' .
quinn retired early in the 1940 season after having been dropped to the reserves .
he had played 168 games for geelong , kicking 169 goals .
in 1946 quinn was appointed coach of geelong but was sacked from the position at the end of the 1948 season after failing to raise geelong above 7th place .
in 2001 quinn was selected as an emergency in geelong 's official ` team of the century ' .
