Career Stats & Summary
Vital Statistics
- Born
- Wednesday, 15th November, 1916
- Died
- 1994
- Place Of Birth
- Adelong, New South Wales, Australia
Biography
Former Tumut fullback played a winning role in C’bury’s first premiership success in 1938. An exceptional goal-kicker, Kirk landed four goals in the 19-6 win over Easts in the final and made his debut for NSW the following year in the centres. Joining Newtown, he became the first player to kick 100 goals in a season (1943) including five in the 34-7 win over Norths in the grand final. Kirk was the season's leading point-scorer on five occasions, the last in 1946 after joining Norths. (He twice kicked a club record 11 goals during the 1944 season and also scored a club record 25pts in a match against St George that year). The first player to score 1000 career points in the Sydney premiership Kirk made a return to the NSW side in his final year in the Sydney competition.
Career Statistics
All statistics shown in this section are based only on data available in the RLP database, and are not necessarily a complete and/or 100% accurate representation of a player's career. This information should be used as a guide only. If you see a question mark (?), it denotes that the figure is not available.
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Australia - By Team | ||||||||||||||
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Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | |||
Southern Division | 1935 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | ![]() |
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Tumut | 1935 | 1 | - | 2 | - | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | ![]() |
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NSW City Seconds | 1939 | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | ![]() |
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NSW Firsts | 1939, 1946 | 6 | 6 | 4 | - | 26 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 66.67% | ![]() |
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Army Firsts | 1943-44 | 2 | - | 8 | - | 16 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0.00% | ![]() |
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NSW City Firsts | 1944, 1946 | 2 | - | 4 | - | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | ![]() |
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Fighting Services I | 1945 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | ![]() |
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Overall | 1935-1946 | 14 | 7 | 20 | 0 | 61 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 57.14% | ![]() |
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Australian League Matches - By Year | ||||||||||||||
Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | |||
Canterbury | NSWRFL 1936 | 12 | 1 | 38 | - | 79 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 66.67% | ![]() |
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Canterbury | NSWRFL 1938 | 16 | 2 | 44 | - | 94 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 81.25% | ![]() |
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Canterbury | NSWRFL 1939 | 14 | 5 | 27 | - | 69 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 64.29% | ![]() |
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Newtown | NSWRFL 1940 | 15 | 9 | 36 | - | 99 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 60.00% | ![]() |
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Newtown | NSWRFL 1941 | 7 | - | 19 | - | 38 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 57.14% | ![]() |
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Newtown | NSWRFL 1942 | 3 | - | 10 | - | 20 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0.00% | ![]() |
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Newtown | NSWRFL 1943 | 17 | - | 58 | - | 116 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 70.59% | ![]() |
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Newtown | NSWRFL 1944 | 16 | 3 | 88 | - | 185 | 11 | 5 | 0 | 68.75% | ![]() |
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Newtown | NSWRFL 1945 | 11 | - | 51 | 1 | 104 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 63.64% | ![]() |
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Newtown | NSWRFL 1946 | 15 | 2 | 58 | - | 122 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 66.67% | ![]() |
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North Sydney | NSWRFL 1947 | ? | - | 58 | - | 116 | ||||||||
Overall | 1936-1947 | ? | 22 | 487 | 1 | 1,042 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ||||
Australian League Matches - By Team | ||||||||||||||
Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | |||
Canterbury | 1936, 1938-39 | 42 | 8 | 109 | - | 242 | 30 | 8 | 4 | 71.43% | ![]() |
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Newtown | 1940-46 | 84 | 14 | 320 | 1 | 684 | 53 | 28 | 3 | 63.10% | ![]() |
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North Sydney | 1947 | ? | - | - | - | - | ? | ? | ? | ? | ||||
Overall | 1936-1947 | ? | 22 | 487 | 1 | 1,042 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ||||
Australian Finals Matches - By Team | ||||||||||||||
Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | |||
Canterbury | 1936, 1938-39 | 4 | - | 15 | - | 30 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 50.00% | ![]() |
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Newtown | 1940, 1943-46 | 8 | 1 | 28 | 1 | 61 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 25.00% | ![]() |
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Overall | 1936-1946 | 12 | 1 | 43 | 1 | 91 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 33.33% | ![]() |
Last modified: Sat, 27 Feb 2021 01:09:12 +1100 (Sydney time)
Your Say
Ian kirk says: Dad was also the first non-playing coach to win a premiership for temora in 1957 (group 9) also won the riverina championship defeating wagga magpies - that team won the clayton cup (best team in CRL) and dad won country coach of the year. (all these achievemtns are well documented)
(01/09/2016)
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