Career
Kirk also became the first player to score 1,000 career points in the NSWRFL. He was also the first player to become the season"s top point scorer on 5 occasions: 1938, 1940, 1943, 1944, 1946. That year he also topped the competition"s point-scorers list and the following year made his debut for NSW in the centres. He was the season"s leading point scorer on five occasions, the last in 1946.
He twice kicked a club record 11 goals during the 1944 NSWRFL season and set Newtown"s club record for most points in a match with 25 (1 try and 11 goals) against Street George, on 26 August 1944.
In 1947 Tom Kirk joined North Sydney Bears for his last season in Sydney, and made a return to the New South Wales side in his final year in the Sydney competition. He finished his playing career at Barmedman, New South Wales in 1948.
Kirk died in March 1994.
