Jimmy Kirk | |
Fullname: | James McEwan Kirk |
Position: | Right back |
Birth Date: | 4 November 1913 |
Birth Place: | Wishaw, Scotland |
Death Place: | Dennistoun, Scotland |
Years1: | – |
Clubs1: | Blantyre Victoria |
Years2: | 1934–1945 |
Clubs2: | Clyde |
Caps2: | 127 |
Goals2: | 2 |
Nationalyears1: | 1940 |
Nationalteam1: | Scotland (wartime) |
Nationalcaps1: | 1 |
Nationalgoals1: | 0 |
James McEwan Kirk (4 November 1913 – 1963) was a Scottish footballer who played for Clyde as a right back.[1] [2] He won the Scottish Cup with the club in 1939[3] after suffering disappointment when the team fell at the semi-final stage in both 1936 and 1937.[4] In 2018, Kirk's winner's medal reached a price of £1,600 at auction.[5]
His career was curtailed by World War II, during which he was selected for Scotland in an unofficial international against a League of Ireland XI in April 1940.[6]