Evelyn Morrison

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(1968-11-15) (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

1. "Scotland - List of Topscorers". RSSSF. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
2. "Football News & Scores - Betting Tips & Transfers - Sporting Life". sportinglife.com. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
3. Evelyn Morrison - Falkirk's Greatest Ever Centre-Forward?, Falkirk Football Historian, 10 February 2013
4. Dykes, Garth; Lamming, Doug (2000). All the Lads: A Complete Who's Who of Sunderland AFC. Great Britain. ISBN 9781899538157.
5. Evelyn Morrison The Stat Cat
6. John Litster (October 2012). "A Record of pre-war Scottish League Players". Scottish Football Historian magazine. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
7. Census returns - Census - Search results, ScotlandsPeople
8. 1937 Retired Footballer becomes teacher, The Blantyre Project, 5 February 2015