[2] He made a name for himself as a goalscorer, and in the 1933 close season moved to England to join Football League First Division side Birmingham.
Though he showed no signs of enhancing his goalscoring reputation, his dribbling attracted the attention of the Scotland national selectors.
[3] After only two years as a professional, McGurk won his first and only international cap,[3] on 4 October 1933, in a 3–2 defeat to Wales at Ninian Park in the British Home Championship.
[4] After two years with Birmingham, in which time he played only 19 games, McGurk left for Bristol City, and a few months after that he was playing in the Birmingham Works League for Whittaker Ellis.
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