Robert Kirk (12 August 1927 – 1 February 2010) was a Scottish footballer best known for winning five senior trophies with Heart of Midlothian in the late 1950s and early 60s.
In January 1948 he was then called up to East End Park where he debuted for the Dunfermline first team the subsequent March.
He made 180 first team appearances scoring 12 goals including collecting a runners-up medal in the October 1949 Scottish League Cup final defeat to Scot Symon's East Fife.
[4] Kirk had supported Hearts as a boy and joined the Tynecastle side at the start of 1955–56 season around the same time as Alex Young.
A capacity crowd watched a tense game in which Rangers keeper, George Niven, was man of the match.
That October 1958 Scottish League Cup Final was won with a heavy 5–1 defeat of Partick Thistle.
However a side visiting Ibrox missing injured captain Dave Mackay were beaten 5–0 with all goals in the first 35 minutes.
[11] The league game against QoS was Mackay's last for Hearts after they accepted a bid of £32,000 from Tottenham Hotspur for their captain who was fit at this time despite having had lengthy spells out injured in the previous 12 months.
On the penultimate Saturday of the league campaign goals by Cumming and Rankin at home to Rangers[13] meant Hearts were four points behind with a game in hand.
Hamilton scored for Hearts in that second successive League Cup Final and Young hit the winner.
Young and Thomson departed for Everton in November 1960.Hearts lost the 1961 Scottish League Cup Final after a replay.
Cumming scored a deserved equalising penalty for Hearts in the first game 1–1 draw they largely dominated against the Scot Symon managed Rangers.
[5] He took charge of Gala Fairydean where he won Scottish Qualifying Cups and East of Scotland League trophies.
He worked as physio for a number of East of Scotland senior and junior clubs, especially Linlithgow Rose whom he was connected with for 20 years.