Chris Porter (footballer, born 1885)
From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
(Redirected from Thomas Porter (footballer))
<templatestyles src="Module:Infobox/styles.css"></templatestyles>
Personal information | |||
---|---|---|---|
Full name | Thomas Christopher Porter[1] | ||
Date of birth | 25 October 1885 | ||
Place of birth | Stockport, England | ||
Date of death | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist.[2] | ||
Place of death | Gallipoli, Turkey[2] | ||
Position(s) | Inside forward | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
Northern Nomads | |||
1905–1908 | Stockport County | 66 | (23) |
1909–1911 | Glossop | 44 | (11) |
Northern Nomads | |||
International career | |||
1908–1910 | England Amateurs | 8 | (13) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Thomas Christopher "Chris" Porter (25 October 1885 – 4 June 1915) was an English amateur football inside forward who played in the Football League for Stockport County and Glossop.[1] He scored 13 goals in 8 appearances for England Amateurs and was a member of the Great Britain squad at the 1908 Summer Olympics, but did not play.[3][4]
Personal life
Porter enlisted as a private in the Manchester Regiment during the First World War and was killed at Gallipoli on 4 June 1915.[2] He is commemorated on the Helles Memorial.[2]
References
<templatestyles src="Asbox/styles.css"></templatestyles>
Categories:
- Use dmy dates from March 2016
- Use British English from March 2016
- No local image but image on Wikidata
- English football forward, 1880s birth stubs
- 1885 births
- 1915 deaths
- Sportspeople from Stockport
- English footballers
- The Football League players
- Association football inside forwards
- Northern Nomads F.C. players
- Stockport County F.C. players
- British Army soldiers
- British Army personnel of World War I
- Manchester Regiment soldiers
- British military personnel killed in World War I
- Glossop North End A.F.C. players
- England amateur international footballers