Harry Morris (footballer, born 1897)

Fulham After being spotted by Phil Kelso scoring prolifically for local Hackney Marshes side Vicar of Wakefield, He spent most of his time with the club in the reserve team and scored heavily. Morris managed seven first team appearances, scoring twice. top-scoring with 17 goals in 39 appearances. Morris made 63 appearances and scored 30 goals during his 18 months with the Bees. Swindon Town Morris dropped back down to the Third Division South to transfer to Swindon Town in June 1926 for a £110 fee. Flourishing under Sam Allen's management, Morris finished the 1926–27 season with 48 goals from 43 league games (a club record which still stands as of ), but problems with the defence meant the Robins could only manage a fifth-place finish. He also became the first Swindon player to score five goals in a single game, which came in a win over Queens Park Rangers. Despite failing to win any silverware, Morris was top scorer in each of his seven seasons with Swindon and scored 18 hat-tricks. Deemed too old by incoming manager Ted Vizard, Morris was released prior to the start of the 1933–34 season. His overall league goalscoring record is the joint 16th-highest in English football history as of . In 1955, 22 years after leaving the County Ground, Morris applied for a coaching role with the club, but was rejected. In a poll to celebrate the Football League's 125th anniversary, Morris was voted Swindon's greatest-ever player by the club's supporters. Clapton Orient Morris transferred to Third Division South club Clapton Orient in July 1933 and scored eight goals in 13 appearances during the 1933–34 season. Cheltenham Town Morris wound down his career in non-League football with Southern League club Cheltenham Town. == International career ==

Morris was called up by England for a trial match, but injury prevented him from taking part. == Managerial career ==

Morris managed IFK Göteborg between 1938 and 1941. He won promotion from Division 2 via the play-offs in his first season and achieved 2nd and 6th-place finishes in the following two Allsvenskan seasons respectively. He also won the 1939–40 Distriktsmästerskapet. Morris ended his spell with a winning percentage of 67%. ==Personal life==

Morris was Jewish. He served in the Middlesex Regiment during the First World War. Morris was married to Edith and had a son, Jack and a daughter, Estelle, who died from polio in 1937 at the age of eight. Morris, Edith and Jack emigrated shortly afterwards to Gothenburg, Sweden, where Morris worked at the British Consulate. The outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 and the invasion of Norway by the Germans the following year saw Morris and his family remain in neutral Sweden until the end of the war. Through his job at the consulate, Morris helped escaped POWs return to the UK. The family emigrated to the United States after the war, with Harry and Edith working for the British Information Services in New York City. They retired to San Mateo, California, where Edith died in 1984, followed a year later by Harry. == Career statistics ==

IFK Göteborg • Division 2 play-offs: 1939 • Distriktsmästerskapet: 1939–40 Individual • Football League Third Division South Golden Boot: 1926–27, 1927–28 ==References==