Enright: Joseph (Joe)

1910-1913 (Leeds City Player Details)

Inside Forward

Born: Belfast: 1890

Debut: v Blackpool (h): 03-09-1910

5’7” 10st 4lb (1910)

Enright was one of three Shelbourne players recruited by Manager Frank Scott-Walford in May 1910 at the start of the 1910-11 season. The other two players were Mick Foley and George Cunningham. Enright had represented the Irish League twice against the Scottish League and the Football League in 1909. He went on to become one of two Leeds City players, with Joe Moran, to appear against Scotland on 16th March 1912 and thereby became the first Leeds players to be capped by Ireland. He had made a scoring debut for Leeds City and he soon established himself, not only as a regular in the Leeds team but also as a regular goal-scorer with ten in his first season and twelve in his second season and on both occasions he finished runner-up to the ace striker Billy McLeod in the Leeds goal-scoring charts. He left Leeds in October 1913 to join Non-League Newport County for £50, before moving to Non-League Coventry City in 1914. He scored seven goals in twenty-one League appearances and one goal in one F.A. Cup tie while at Highfield Road. He returned to Ireland with Athlone Town and played for them while on leave from serving with the RAOC during WW1. He returned to Ireland in 1919 to live there permanently.