Bryan Quirk

{{Short description|Australian rules footballer and coach}}

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{{Use Australian English|date=September 2015}}

{{Infobox AFL biography

| name = Bryan Quirk

| image =

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1946|12|26|df=yes}}

| birth_place =

| death_date =

| death_place =

| originalteam = Morwell (LVFL)

| debutdate = Round 3, 1965

| debutteam = Carlton

| debutopponent = South Melbourne

| debutstadium = Lake Oval

| height = 185cm

| weight = 76 kg

| position =

| statsend = 1975

| years1 = 1965–1975

| club1 = Carlton

| games_goals1 = 167 (113){{cite web|url=http://afltables.com/afl/stats/players/B/Bryan_Quirk.html|title=AFL Tables - Bryan Quirk - Stats - Statistics|publisher=AFL Tables|accessdate=3 October 2014}}

| careerhighlights = *1968 Australian Football World Tour

• 1968 premiership
• Carlton Leading Goalkicker 1965

}}

Bryan Quirk (born 26 December 1946) is a former Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League. He was recruited from Morwell Football Club in the then Latrobe Valley Football League.

He was Collingwood fan as a child.

Quirk made his debut for the Carlton Football Club in Round 3, 1965. He kicked 3 goals on debut as a forward pocket. Quirk retired in 1975, at the age of 29, after eleven years with the club.

After his retirement from playing, he spent many years as a coach. He coached Maryborough in 1976 and 1977.[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=qdInAAAAIBAJ&sjid=O5IDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2522%2C2790209 Quirk to Coach, The Age, (Wednesday, 12 November 1975), p.30.]

He returned to Carlton in 1978 and coached its Under-19s to back-to-back premierships in 1978 and 1979 (assisted by Brian Buckley{{cite web | url=http://www.carltonfc.com.au/news/2014-08-05/blues-big-man-brian-buckley-dies | title= Blues' big man Brian Buckley dies | first=Tony | last=De Bolfo | date=5 August 2014 | publisher=Carlton Football Club | accessdate=5 August 2014 }}), and later coached the Carlton reserves for three seasons.

He coached Victorian Football Association club Oakleigh Football Club from 1987 until 1989, leading the club to the 1988 Division 2 premiership, and returned to the club in 1992 following the mid-year retirement of Russell Rowe.{{cite news|newspaper=The Age|publication-place=Melbourne, VIC|page=25|author=Darrin Farrant|date=22 May 1992|title=Quirk to coach Oakleigh}}

Quirk was recently added to a stamp released by Australia Post celebrating premiership players.

Quirk taught grade 5 at Kensington Primary School in 1967.

Quirk used to teach sport at Berwick Fields Primary School.