{{short description|Scottish footballer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox football biography |name = Robert Orrock |image = |image_size = |caption = |fullname = Robert Abbie Orrock |birth_date = 25 May 1885 |birth_place = Kinghorn, Scotland |death_date = {{death year and age|1969|1885}} |death_place = Coatbridge, Scotland |height = {{height|ft=5|in=6}}<ref name = "Smith"/> |position = Defender |youthyears1 = |youthclubs1 = Kinghorn Thistle<ref>[http://www.falkirk-football-history.co.uk/2016/06/pen-pic-robert-orrock-east-stirlingshire.html?m=1 Pen Pic - Robert Orrock - East Stirlingshire FC], Falkirk Football Historian, 15 June 2016</ref> |years1 = |clubs1 = Forth Rangers |years2 = 1906–1908 |clubs2 = East Stirlingshire |caps2 = 41 |goals2 = 4 |years3= 1908–1917 |clubs3= Falkirk |caps3 = 195 |goals3 = 1 |years4 = 1917–1919 |clubs4 = St Mirren |caps4 = 37 |goals4= 0 |years5 = 1919–1923 |clubs5 = Alloa Athletic |caps5 = 65 |goals5= 0 |years6 = 1919–1920 |clubs6 = → East Stirlingshire (loan) |caps6 = 0 |goals6= 0 |years7 = 1923–1925 |clubs7 = East Stirlingshire |caps7 = 37 |goals7= 0 |totalcaps = 375 |totalgoals = 5 |nationalyears1 = 1913 |nationalteam1 = Scotland |nationalcaps1 = 1 |nationalgoals1 = 0 }} '''Robert Abbie Orrock''' (25 May 1885 – 1969) was a Scottish footballer who played as a defender.
==Career== Born in Kinghorn, Fife, Orrock played club football for East Stirlingshire (two spells), Falkirk, St Mirren and Alloa Athletic.<ref>[http://www.falkirk-football-history.co.uk/2013/03/robert-orrock.html?m=1 Robert Orrock], Falkirk Football Historian, 9 March 2013</ref><ref>[https://www.vintagefootballers.com/product/orrock-bobby-image-1-falkirk-1913/ Orrock Bobby Image 1 Falkirk 1913], Vintage Footballers</ref><ref>[https://playupliverpool.com/1919/07/30/willie-millar-transferred-to-alloa-athletic/ Willie Millar transferred to Alloa Athletic], Dundee Courier, 30 July 1919, via Play Up Liverpool</ref> He won the Scottish Cup with Falkirk in 1913 during a nine-year spell at the club,<ref name = "Smith"/><ref name=litsterprewar>{{cite journal|title=A Record of pre-war Scottish League Players|author=John Litster|publisher=Scottish Football Historian magazine|date=October 2012}}</ref> and made one appearance for Scotland in 1913;<ref name = "Smith">{{cite book|title=Scotland Who's Who: International Players 1872–2013|author=Paul Smith|publisher=Pitch Publishing|year=2013|page=236}}</ref> a decade later he was a guest member of Third Lanark'a squad which toured South America.<ref>[https://www.rsssf.org/tables/3rdlanark-satrip23.html Río de la Plata Trip of Third Lanark 1923], Pablo Ciullini, RSSSF, 19 August 2020</ref><ref name=badbhoy>[https://books.google.com/books?id=1xojAwAAQBAJ&dq=%22willie+frame%22+motherwell&pg=PT52 Tommy McInally: Celtic's Bad Bhoy], David Potter; Black & White Publishing, 2009; {{ISBN|9781845025786}}</ref>
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