I certainly do cherish it Rexie.
Bob Quinn - The Rover of Tobruk
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Widely known in my very younger days as the 'Blood n Tars'. Don't hear it anymore, some things you just can't wipe off your hard drive.
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Weren't they the Wolves or some such thing for a couple of years.
Around the time of Peter Meuret?
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Normally just peruse the SM for local footy scores but this also caught my eye
It'd make a ripper feature length film with serious $'s and top notch director/producers.
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The extraordinary life and legacy of Bob Quinn - InDaily
Today, Sport SA has announced that Quinn’s name will be rightfully placed in another pantheon of sporting achievement, the SA Sport Hall of Fame. The occasion sparks this thought: How would one of the most modest and humble achievers in South Australian sport want to be remembered today when the spirit of the Anzac tradition is so strong and the game of Australian football is so powerful? As a sporting hero or a war hero?
The “MM” by Quinn’s name on the northern stand at Alberton Oval is not in recognition of his two Magarey Medals, earned on each side of his war-interrupted career – the first in 1938 when Quinn was arguably the best rover in South Australian football; the second in 1945 after he had returned from war service with, as his family and team-mates recall, half a leg “blown off” by enemy fire to his right thigh. The “MM” script on the grandstand forever recalls Quinn’s Military Medal for taking command of the 10th platoon at Tobruk to dismantle a barbed-wire barrier before attacking an enemy post while facing the threat of death from the spray of machine guns.
Today, 70 years after Quinn last coached the South Australian State team, the boy who ran from Exeter and rowed across the Port River to train at Alberton Oval is appropriately remembered as a hero, not just as a sportsman but as a soldier on true battlefields.
Today, Sport SA has announced that Quinn’s name will be rightfully placed in another pantheon of sporting achievement, the SA Sport Hall of Fame. The occasion sparks this thought: How would one of the most modest and humble achievers in South Australian sport want to be remembered today when the spirit of the Anzac tradition is so strong and the game of Australian football is so powerful? As a sporting hero or a war hero?
The “MM” by Quinn’s name on the northern stand at Alberton Oval is not in recognition of his two Magarey Medals, earned on each side of his war-interrupted career – the first in 1938 when Quinn was arguably the best rover in South Australian football; the second in 1945 after he had returned from war service with, as his family and team-mates recall, half a leg “blown off” by enemy fire to his right thigh. The “MM” script on the grandstand forever recalls Quinn’s Military Medal for taking command of the 10th platoon at Tobruk to dismantle a barbed-wire barrier before attacking an enemy post while facing the threat of death from the spray of machine guns.
Today, 70 years after Quinn last coached the South Australian State team, the boy who ran from Exeter and rowed across the Port River to train at Alberton Oval is appropriately remembered as a hero, not just as a sportsman but as a soldier on true battlefields.
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Nup this is Sth Aust after all, I mean have a look who Bob is rated alongside of. My only surprise is that Graham Cornes isn't there... yet.
The South Australian Sport Hall of Fame Legends & Inductees
South Australian Sport Hall of Fame Legends & Inductees The inaugural members of The South Australian Sport Hall of Fame were announced on 15th September...
I get the lionisation of Robran but there was a game at Prospect where our Russell played CHB on him and pulled his pants down.
Herb's father once said it was Russell's true position, probably when he was growing up but not at the highest level.
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Along side another Aussie war hero, namely one G S CornesNup this is Sth Aust after all, I mean have a look who Bob is rated alongside of. My only surprise is that Graham Cornes isn't there... yet.
The South Australian Sport Hall of Fame Legends & Inductees
South Australian Sport Hall of Fame Legends & Inductees The inaugural members of The South Australian Sport Hall of Fame were announced on 15th September...www.sportsa.org.au
I get the lionisation of Robran but there was a game at Prospect where our Russell played CHB on him and pulled his pants down.
Herb's father once said it was Russell's true position, probably when he was growing up but not at the highest level.
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Nah.
This is SA after all.
