[1][2] A forward, Quinn kicked three goals in Geelong's 81-point win over St Kilda at Junction Oval in round seven.
[3][4] Geelong's winning score 16.18 (114) set a league record which lasted until the 1899 VFL season.
[8] The following season he appeared in the opening five rounds and didn't play any further senior football for Geelong.
[11] On 11 December 1918, Quinn was one of three men killed when gas penetrated a sewer shaft on River Street in Richmond.
[12] Two of the men were employees of the Metropolitan Board of Works, one of whom was engaged in tarring the ladder which led down the shaft and fell down the hole when he was overcome by the gas.