| Bernie Quinlan | |||
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| Personal information | |||
| Full name | Bernard Francis Quinlan | ||
| Nickname(s) | Superboot | ||
| Date of birth | 21 July 1951 | ||
| Original team(s) | Traralgon | ||
| Height | 193 cm (6 ft 4 in) | ||
| Weight | 97 kg (214 lb) | ||
| Position(s) | Centre half forward/centre half back/ruck-rover | ||
| Playing career1 | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 1969–1977 | Footscray | 177 (241) | |
| 1978–1986 | Fitzroy | 189 (576) | |
| Total | 366 (817) | ||
| Representative team honours | |||
| Years | Team | Games (Goals) | |
| Victoria | 4 (6) | ||
| Coaching career3 | |||
| Years | Club | Games (W–L–D) | |
| 1995 | Fitzroy | 19 (2–17–0) | |
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1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1986. 3 Coaching statistics correct as of 1995. | |||
| Career highlights | |||
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| Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com | |||
Bernard Francis Quinlan (born 21 July 1951) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Footscray Football Club and Fitzroy Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
One of a handful of players to have won a Brownlow Medal and Coleman Medal, Quinlan was an inaugural inductee in the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 1996. Renowned for his prodigious long kicking, which earned him the nickname "Superboot", Quinlan played his best football late in his career, earning most of his individual accolades after he had turned 30. He holds the record for the most career games without playing in a Grand Final[1] and is one of five VFL/AFL players (the others being Shaun Burgoyne, Heath Shaw, Lance Franklin and Patrick Dangerfield) to have played 150 or more games at two separate clubs.[2]