Harris: Joshua (Joe)

1973-1982 (Player Details)

Outside Left

Born: Glasgow: 05-11-1891

Debut: v Blackpool (h): 26-08-1922

5’10” 11st 10lb (1922)

After starting with Vale of Clyde and Ashfield in Scottish junior football, he began his League career with Burnley in September 1910. After scoring five goals in fifty-seven appearances, he left Turf Moor for Bristol City in the summer of 1912 and played two hundred and five games for them and scored twenty-six goals. He also played a good deal of Army representative football. He was suspended for twelve months and Bristol City were fined £50 after he was paid while being on amateur forms. Harris was awarded a £600 benefit by Bristol City before he left for Leeds in July 1922. Joe was one of the mainstays of the Leeds team that won the Second Division Championship in 1923-24, laying on goals for Jack Swan and Joe Richmond. After missing only one game in United’s promotion season, he was an ever-present in United’s first-ever First Division campaign. He moved to Fulham in October 1925, where he played forty-two games and scored two goals, before retiring in 1928. His brother Neil played for Newcastle United and Scotland, his nephew John played for Chelsea and later managed Sheffield United. Joe Harris, who played a total of four hundred and twenty-eight League games, died in the summer of 1966.