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Bert
Morley |
Notts County FC
1 appearance, 0 goals
P 1 W 0 D
1 L 0 F 1: A 1
50% successful
1910
captain: none
minutes played: 90 |
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Timeline |
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Herbert Morley |
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Birth |
8 October 1882 at 33 (Old) Rows, Kiveton Park, Rotherham, West Riding of Yorkshire [registered in
Worksop, Nottinghamshire, December 1882]. |
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According to the 1891
census, Herbert is the youngest of five children, four of them sons, to
John and Martha K. (née Parkin). His father and three older
brothers are coalminers. They live at 33 Rows in Kiveton Park. |
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According to the 1901
census, Herbert is the youngest of three children now at Colliery Cottages
in Kiveton Park. He is now working at the coalmines along with his older
brother and father. |
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According to the 1911
census, Herbert, a professional footballer, is boarding along with
teammate Fred Emberton, at 63 Woodward Street in Nottingham. The home of
widow Ann Elizabeth Eite and her two children. |
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Marriage |
to Elizabeth May Carpenter
[registered in Nottingham, September 1918]. |
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According to the 1921
census, Herbert, an out-of-work Notts County FC professional footballer,
is now married to Elizabeth May, a dressmaker. They live at 76 Station
Road in Kiveton Park. |
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According to the 1939 register, Herbert, a retired
professional footballer, remains married to Elizabeth M., and they live at
Springfield, on Walls Lane in Ingoldmells. |
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Death |
16 July 1957 at Springfields, Walls Lane,
Ingoldmells, Skegness,
aged
74 years 281 days
[registered in Spilsby, Lincolnshire]. £1750 15s. 10d
left to his widow, Elizabeth May. |
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Source |
 Douglas Lammings' An
English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] & |
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Playing Career |
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Club(s) |
Started
with Kiveton Park FC before signing with Grimsby Town FC in August 1904.
After three goals in 93 league appearances, Notts County FC signed him in March 1907,
and he made 258 league appearances, without scoring any goals. Retired during the war. |
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Club honours |
Football League
Division Two winners 1913-14; |
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Individual honours |
None |
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Distinctions |
None |
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Height/Weight |
6' 1", 13st.
4lbs [1908]. |
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Source |
Douglas Lammings' An English
Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990]. |
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England Career |
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Player number |
One of five who became the 344th
players (344) to appear for England. |
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Position(s) |
Right-back |
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Only match |
No. 105, 12 February 1910,
Ireland
1
England 1,
a British Championship
match at
Solitude Ground, Cliftonville, Belfast, aged
27 years
127 days. |
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Major tournaments |
British Championship 1909-10; |
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Team honours |
None |
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Individual honours |
None |
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Distinctions |
Died the same day
as Albert
Sturgess, and thirteen days after George Blackburn. |
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Beyond England |
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After retiring, he scouted for Notts
County FC. Is said to have actually been the innovator of the notorious
offside trap that is generally ascribed to Newcastle United FC's Bill
McCracken. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.179. |
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