Harry Mountford

Harry Washington Mountford (born 1886; date of death unknown) was an English footballer who played as a forward for Burslem Port Vale, Everton, Burnley, and Third Lanark. He scored 43 goals in 150 league appearances in a ten-year career in the English Football League.

Harry Mountford

Personal information
Full name	Harry Washington Mountford[1]
Date of birth	1886[1]
Place of birth	Hanley, Staffordshire, England[1]
Position(s)	Forward
Youth career
	Hanley Swifts
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1903–1907	Burslem Port Vale	96	(28)
1907–1911	Everton	25	(5)
1911–1913	Burnley	28	(10)
1913–1915	Third Lanark	45	(4)
Total		194	(47)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Playing career

Burslem Port Vale

Mountford began his career with Hanley Swifts, before joining Burslem Port Vale as an amateur in June 1903.[1] He scored his first goal in the Second Division on 23 January 1904, in a 4–1 defeat at Glossop.[1] He played a total of seven games in 1903–04, scoring two goals.[1] He hit three goals in 28 appearances in 1904–05.[1] He scored a hat-trick past Lincoln City in a 3–1 win at the Athletic Ground on 30 December 1905, and finished the 1905–06 season as the club's top-scorer with 15 goals in 37 appearances.[1] He scored 11 goals in 37 games in 1906–07, before being transferred to Everton in June 1907, when Vale suffered a financial crisis and resigned from the English Football League.[1] In his four seasons at Port Vale, Mountford made 109 appearances in league and cup competitions, and scored a total of 31 goals.[1]

Later career

The "Toffees" finished 11th in the First Division in 1907–08, before finishing in second place in 1908–09, tenth in 1909–10, and then fourth in 1910–11. Mountford scored five goals in 25 league games in his four years at Goodison Park. He then followed Bert Freeman and moved on to Burnley, helping the "Clarets" to finish third in the Second Division in 1911–12, before they won promotion with a second-place finish in 1912–13. Mountford scored ten goals in 29 league games in his two seasons at Turf Moor. He then moved to Scotland to play for Third Lanark[2] where he was a fairly regular starter for two seasons and featured in a Scottish Cup semi-final in the first (Thirds lost out to eventual winners Celtic).[3]

Statistics

Source:[4][5][2]

Club	Season	Division	League		FA Cup		Total
			Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Burslem Port Vale	1903–04	Second Division	7	2	0	0	7	2
	1904–05	Second Division	24	3	2	0	26	3
	1905–06	Second Division	33	15	1	0	34	15
	1906–07	Second Division	32	8	4	2	36	10
	Total		96	28	7	2	103	30
Everton	1907–08	First Division	10	3	0	0	10	3
	1908–09	First Division	2	0	0	0	2	0
	1909–10	First Division	12	2	0	0	12	2
	1910–11	First Division	1	0	0	0	1	0
	Total		25	5	0	0	25	5
Burnley	1910–11	Second Division	2	2	0	0	2	2
	1911–12	Second Division	10	6	0	0	10	6
	1912–13	Second Division	14	1	1	0	15	1
	1913–14	Second Division	2	1	0	0	2	1
	Total		28	10	1	0	29	10
Third Lanark	1913–14	Scottish Division One	21	3	6	1	27	4
	1914–15	Scottish Division One	24	1	0	0	24	1
	Total		45	4	6	1	51	5
Career total			194	47	14	3	208	50

Honours

Everton

• Football League First Division runner-up: 1908–09

Burnley

• Football League Second Division runner-up: 1912–13

References

1. Kent, Jeff (1996). Port Vale Personalities. Witan Books. p. 208. ISBN 0-9529152-0-0.
2. John Litster (October 2012). "A Record of pre-war Scottish League Players". Scottish Football Historian magazine. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
3. The Celts Succeed Comfortably, The Scotsman, 30 March 1914, via The Celtic Wiki
4. Harry Mountford at the English National Football Archive (subscription required)
5. Profile evertonfc.com