Harry Morris (footballer, born 1866)

Harry Morris (11 April 1866 – June 1931) was an English professional footballer who spent all his playing career with Small Heath (now Birmingham City).

On leaving school he took up an apprenticeship in the plumbing trade, which he combined with playing for Small Heath Alliance from 1883 at the age of 17 – the club was one of the first to turn professional, but that was not until 1885.

Over his career he saved £85 from his wages as a footballer, enough to take on the lease of a shop near the club's old Arthur Street ground, buy tools, and set up his own plumbing business.

He identified an area of wet, sloping wasteland next to a railway as a potentially suitable site for a state-of-the-art football ground, convinced his fellow directors to back the idea, and served on the committee formed to organise the works.

Morris died in June 1931 in Birmingham, not long after watching his club lose to West Bromwich Albion in the FA Cup Final.