Stanley Shute Harris (19 July 1881 – 4 May 1926) was an English

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who represented and captained the

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. He also played

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for various clubs, appearing in a total of 16 first-class matches.

Personal life

Stanley Harris was the son of

Charles Alexander Harris Sir Charles Alexander Harris (28 June 1855 – 26 March 1947) was a British colonial administrator, Governor of Newfoundland from 1917 to 1922. Harris was born in Wrexham, Wales, but spent much of his first ten years in St. John's, Newfoun ...

. He was educated at

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and Pembroke College, Cambridge.

Football career

Harris captained England in four of his six internationals. He made his debut in 1904 when the English defeated Scotland 1–0 and the following year wore the captain's armband for the first time in a 1–1 draw with Ireland. In 1905 he also played an international against Wales, not as captain, and scored one of England's three goals. His last three internationals came in 1906 and he captained his country in all of them, including a 5–0 demolition of Ireland at the

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where he scored a goal. He played club football at

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and with Old Westminsters; he was also a member of the

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club, making 60 appearances between 1903 and 1910, scoring 57 goals including five in an 11–3 victory over a Manchester United side on 26 November 1904. He appeared once for England Amateurs, captaining the side in their inaugural international, in 1906, against

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. The match, which is recognized as a full international by the French FA, was won by England 15–0, and Harris scored seven times.

Cricket career

In his cricket career Harris scored 375 runs at 14.42, with two half centuries. He started off playing at

, from 1902 to 1904 and in the first of those years also played a first-class match for

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in the County Championship. In a 1904 University Match involving Cambridge, he switched sides and played with Surrey. During the same season he also appeared in a match for London County and in 1919, after a 15-year absence from first-class cricket, Harris played three matches at Sussex

Teaching career

Professionally, Harris was a schoolmaster. He was head of

St Ronan's School Saint Ronan's School is an independent co-educational preparatory school for boys and girls from 3 to 13 years located in Hawkhurst in Kent, England. It currently has about 440 pupils, the majority of them day pupils, although boarding is avai ...

from 1909 until his death from cancer, aged 44, in 1926."Mr. Stanley Harris", ''The Times'', 22 May 1926, p. 8; an
"Stanley Harris"
St Ronan's School, retrieved 30 January 2018

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