Henry Morris (footballer)
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Henry Miller Morris (17 December 1919 – 13 March 1993) was a Scottish
footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...
who played for East Fife,
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and the Scotland national team as a
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. Morris, a
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, joined East Fife from Dundee Violet in 1946, having previously played with another junior Dundee side, Lochee Central, during the War. He scored 60 goals during the 1947–48 League campaign as East Fife won the Second Division title. That same season he also helped his side claim the
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, the first time it had been won by a side out with the top flight. He won a further League cup with East Fife in 1950 before moving to Dundee United in 1953, where he retired. Morris scored a
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in his only Scotland
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, an 8–2 win over
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in October 1949.


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