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| Full name | Albert Samuel Kirk | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1916-11-15)15 November 1916 Tumut, New South Wales, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 15 March 1994(1994-03-15) (aged 77) Caringbah, New South Wales, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Fullback | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Tom Kirk (1916–1994) was an Australian professionalrugby league footballer who played in the 1930s and 1940s. ANew South Wales state representative goal-kicking fullback, he played inSydney'sNSWRFL for theCanterbury-Bankstown andNewtown clubs (with whom he won premierships) as well as withNorth Sydney.[2] He was the first player to become the season's top point scorer on 5 occasions:1938,1940,1943,1944,1946. In 1947 he became the first player to score 1,000 career points in the NSWRFL.
Former fullback ofTumut'sMaher Cup team, Kirk moved to Sydney and first tasted premiership success with Canterbury's1938 Grand Final-winning team, landing four goals in the 19–6 win over Easts in the final. That year he also topped the competition's point-scorers list and the following year made his debut for NSW in the centres.
JoiningNewtown, Kirk became the first player to kick 100 goals in a season in1943, including five in the 34–7 win over Norths in the premiership decider. He was the season's leading point scorer on five occasions, the last in 1946.
He twice kicked a club record 11 goals during the1944 NSWRFL season and set Newtown's club record for most points in a match with 25 (1 try and 11 goals) against St George, on 26 August 1944.
In 1946 he overtookArthur Oxford's record for the most points scored in anNSWRFL career (864); Kirks's eventual total of 1,042 stood as the new career record for thirteen seasons until it was bettered byBernie Purcell in 1959.
In 1947, Kirk joinedNorth Sydney for his last season in Sydney, and made a return to theNew South Wales side in his final year in the Sydney competition.
He finished his playing career atBarmedman, New South Wales in 1953.[3]
Kirk died in March 1994 aged 77.[4]
| Preceded by Arthur Oxford (1927) | Record-holder Most points in anNSWRFL career[1] 1946 (865) – 1959 (1,042) | Succeeded by Bernie Purcell (1959) |
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