Frank Quinn (footballer, born 1926)

Scottish footballer

Frank Quinn
Personal information
Date of birth	(1926-09-12)12 September 1926
Place of birth	Saltcoats, Scotland
Date of death	18 October 2008(2008-10-18) (aged 82)
Place of death	Saltcoats, Scotland
Height	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Position(s)	Outside right
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
	Saltcoats Victoria
1946–1948	Celtic	6	(2)
1948–1954	Dundee United	157	(90)
1954–1955	Hamilton Academical	25	(15)
1955–1957	Cowdenbeath	63	(38)
1957–1958	Stranraer	9	(7)
Total		260	(152)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Francis Quinn (12 September 1926 – 18 October 2008) was a Scottish professional footballer who played as an outside right for Celtic, Dundee United, Hamilton Academical, Cowdenbeath and Stranraer.

Born in Saltcoats, Ayrshire, Quinn played for local junior club Saltcoats Victoria before turning senior with Celtic in November 1946. Having failed to become a first team regular, he was released in 1948, joining Dundee United on a free transfer on 18 August 1948. He scored a hat trick for the reserve team on the same day. After making his first team debut against Alloa Athletic on 1 September, he quickly established himself, becoming part of a celebrated forward line known as the "Famous Five". Despite playing on the wing he was also a regular goalscorer, scoring over twenty goals in each of four consecutive seasons and finishing as United's leading scorer in the 1952-53 season. He was released by the club in May 1954, subsequently signing for Hamilton.

Quinn died in Saltcoats in 2008. He was posthumously inducted into the Dundee United Hall of Fame in 2016.

References

^ "Hat-Trick Debut". The Courier. Dundee. 19 August 1948. Retrieved 15 September 2014 – via British Newspaper Archive.
"Profile". Post War English & Scottish Football League A - Z Player's Database.
"Albion Capture". Evening Telegraph. Dundee. 26 November 1946. Retrieved 14 September 2014 – via British Newspaper Archive.
Gracie, Steve (2009). The Rise of the Terrors. Dundee: Arabest Publishing. pp. 231–232. ISBN 9780955834110.
"Hall of Fame Inductees 2016". Dundee United F.C. Retrieved 21 November 2016.

v t e Dundee United F.C. – Hall of Fame inductees
2008	Briggs Døssing Gillespie Hegarty Malpas Narey Smith
2009	Bannon Coyle McAlpine McKay R. Milne Rolland
2010	Bowman Clark Dodds Fraser Hainey Mitchell Sturrock
2011	Cameron Holt Hutchison Kopel Pedersen Wing
2012	Irvine Kirkwood A. Milne Olofsson Thomson Welsh
2013	Fleming Hart Mackay Main Persson J. Reilly
2014	Gallacher McKinlay Millar Payne Pettigrew Wilkie
2015	Dailly McInally McLean Paatelainen P. Reilly Stark
2016	Davie Dillon Gough Kerr McLaren Quinn
2017	Phillip Redford Van de Kamp Wilson
2019	Brewster Brownlie Golac Neilson

v t e Cowdenbeath F.C. – Hall of Fame inductees
Players	Adamson H. Allan R. Allan Archibald Armstrong R. Birrell W. Birrell Bostock G. Brown J. Brown Buchanan Buckley Burns Cairns Callaghan Cowan Curle Devlin Dickson Drummond Dryburgh Edwards Falconer Frame Geddes Gildea Gilfillan Glancy Gomis Grant Hamill Hay Hemmings Henderson Hendren Hughes Jack Jones Jordan Kinnell Laing Lancaster Law Leonard Liddle Lindsay Mackenzie Malone Mbu McArthur McDowell McGarr McGlashan McGregor McLauchlan Menzies Mercer Middleton Mowbray Murphy Murray Paatelainen J. Paterson W. Paterson Philp Ja. Pollock Jo. Pollock Pullar Quinn Rankin Rankine Reid Renfrew Ritchie J. Robertson P. Robertson Ross R. Russell T. Russell Smith Steele G. Stewart W. Stewart Tait Taylor Turnbull Venters Walker Wall Walls Ward Wilson Winter Wright Yardley
Managers	Duncan Harrow Levein Matthew Rolland

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