John Joseph Quin (2 July 1890 – 1953) was a Scottish

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who played as a

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. He played in the

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for

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and

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, and also spent a season with

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without making an appearance. After the

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, he played in Scotland for Clyde and

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Career

Quin was born to Anna Maria (née Burns) and John Quin in

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, but lived in Manchester from the age of 12.Dykes (1994), p. 310. He played for

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, Higher Broughton and Cheetham Hill as a youth, before attracting the attention of

at the age of 17. He signed for the club in November 1907 after scoring against Liverpool in a trial match for the reserve team; however, he refused to sign a new contract at the end of the season and joined

. He made his

debut at centre-forward, standing in for

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in a 2–0 away defeat to

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on 3 April 1909. His only other appearance for the club came on New Year's Day 1910, playing at outside right in a 2–0 win at

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. During his time at Manchester United, Quin was also a teacher, which left little time for training. This resulted in him being let go by Manchester United, and he joined

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at the end of the 1909–10 season. His time there was short, and he moved to

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before the end of the year, followed by a move to Eccles Borough in October 1911. In May 1912, however, he was signed by

, giving up his teaching job to go full-time as a footballer. In the two years before the outbreak of the

, Quin played 61 times for the

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side, but scored just five times, and at the end of the war, he moved to Scotland to play for Clyde. He spent two years there, followed by two years with

, during which time he scored a combined 36 goals in 52 appearances. After retiring from football, Quin became a linesman with the

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. Quin married Mary Caughey MacGavin in Milton in 1921. Quin's father, John Sr., was also a footballer who played as an amateur for Edinburgh Hibernian and had international trials for

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. Quin died in Ayr in 1953 at the age of 62.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Quin, Jack 1890 births 1953 deaths Footballers from Barrhead Men's association football midfielders Scottish men's footballers Manchester City F.C. players Manchester United F.C. players Nelson F.C. players Chorley F.C. players Eccles United F.C. players Grimsby Town F.C. players Clyde F.C. players Ayr United F.C. players 20th-century Scottish sportsmen