Evelyn Morrison
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Evelyn Sneddon Morrison | ||
| Date of birth | 1 August 1902 | ||
| Place of birth | Natal Province, South Africa | ||
| Date of death | 15 November 1968 (aged 66) | ||
| Place of death | Hamilton, Scotland | ||
| Position(s) | Centre forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Moorpark Amateurs | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1927–1928 | Stenhousemuir | 23 | (31) |
| 1928–1929 | Falkirk | 58 | (75) |
| 1929–1931 | Sunderland | 15 | (7) |
| 1931–1932 | Partick Thistle | 15 | (15) |
| Total | 111 | (128) | |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Evelyn Sneddon Morrison (1 August 1902 – 15 November 1968) was a Scottish footballer who played as a centre forward. His most notable spell was with Falkirk, where he finished as the top scorer in Scottish Football League Division One in the 1928–29 season, scoring 43 goals.[1] This remains the highest single-season total ever recorded for the club.[2][3]
He also played for Stenhousemuir (where he made his senior debut in 1927 aged 26), Sunderland[4][5] and Partick Thistle, where it appears his short period as a professional concluded in 1932 despite maintaining a strong rate of goalscoring.[6]
Morrison was born in South Africa to Scottish parents; the family returned to their native Lanarkshire while he was a young boy.[7] After his football career ended he became a school teacher in Blantyre.[8] In 1939 he married Lily Ann Stewart Ashenhurst (1904–1960)
References
[edit]- ^ "Scotland - List of Topscorers". RSSSF. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
- ^ "Football News & Scores - Betting Tips & Transfers - Sporting Life". sportinglife.com. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
- ^ Evelyn Morrison - Falkirk's Greatest Ever Centre-Forward?, Falkirk Football Historian, 10 February 2013
- ^ Dykes, Garth; Lamming, Doug (2000). All the Lads: A Complete Who's Who of Sunderland AFC. Great Britain. ISBN 9781899538157.
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- ^ John Litster (October 2012). "A Record of pre-war Scottish League Players". Scottish Football Historian magazine.
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- ^ 1937 Retired Footballer becomes teacher, The Blantyre Project, 5 February 2015
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- 1902 births
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- Scottish men's footballers
- South African men's soccer players
- Falkirk F.C. players
- Sunderland A.F.C. players
- Scottish Football League players
- English Football League players
- South African emigrants to the United Kingdom
- Footballers from Hamilton, South Lanarkshire
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- Scottish league football top scorers
- Men's association football forwards
- 20th-century Scottish sportsmen
- Scottish football forward, 1900s birth stubs