Seymour Morris

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Seymour Morris
Personal information
Date of birth 15 February 1908(1908-02-15)
Place of birth    Ynyshir, Wales
Date of death    1991 (aged c. 83)
Playing position Outside left
Youth clubs
Aberaman Athletic
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1933–1935
1935–1945		 Huddersfield Town
Birmingham		 06 0(3)
83 (29)   
National team
1936–1939 Wales 05 0(2)

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only.
* Appearances (Goals)

Seymour Morris (15 February 1908 – 1991) was a Welsh professional footballer who played as an outside left. He won five full caps for his country and played for Huddersfield Town and Birmingham in the Football League.

[edit] Biography

Seymour Morris was born in Ynyshir, Glamorgan. On leaving school he became a miner, and then joined the army, serving in the Welch Regiment. While stationed near Cardiff he played football for Welsh League side Aberaman Athletic, where he was noticed by bigger clubs. At the relatively late age of 25 he turned professional, signing for Huddersfield Town in 1933. Unable to establish himself as a regular first-team player at Huddersfield, he moved to fellow First Division club Birmingham in March 1935.

At Birmingham he was used in his preferred position on the left wing, but still took another eighteen months to supplant Billy Guest as first choice in that spot. He was the club's top scorer in 1936–37, with 15 league goals (16 in all competitions), but this was the only year in which injury and international duty allowed him to play anything approaching a full season. During the Second World War he serviced aircraft at Elmdon aerodrome and made occasional appearances for Birmingham, playing his last game for the club in April 1945.

He won five full caps for Wales. On his international debut he scored the opening goal in a 2–1 victory over England at Ninian Park on 17 October 1936, which was the first time England had lost in Wales for over 50 years.[1] Wales went on to win the Home International Championship that year, the last time they won it outright.[2]

When he retired from playing football he took up coaching in his native South Wales. Later he and his wife ran a children's home. He died in 1991 aged about 83.

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Match Statistics. The Football Association. Retrieved on 2007-08-23.
  2. ^ Macario Reyes and Neil Morrison (1999-10-01). British Home Championship Overview. RSSSF. Retrieved on 2007-08-25.

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Persondata
NAME Morris, Seymour
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Professional footballer
DATE OF BIRTH 1908-02-15
PLACE OF BIRTH Ynyshir, Glamorgan, Wales
DATE OF DEATH 1991
PLACE OF DEATH