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Harry Mountford

Harry Mountford
Personal information
Full name Harry Washington Mountford
Date of birth 1886
Place of birth Hanley, Staffordshire, England
Playing position 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)
Third Lanark
Total 149+ (43+)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

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 Football League.

Mountford began his career with Hanley Swifts, before joining Burslem Port Vale as an amateur in June 1903. He scored his first goal in the Second Division on 23 January 1904, in a 4–1 defeat at Glossop. He played a total of seven games in 1903–04, scoring two goals. He hit three goals in 28 appearances in 1904–05. 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. 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 Football League. In his four seasons at Port Vale, Mountford made 109 appearances in league and cup competitions, and scored a total of 31 goals.


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