Harry Offer
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Henry Thomas Offer | ||
| Date of birth | 1871 | ||
| Place of birth | Devizes, England | ||
| Date of death | 12 January 1947 | ||
| Place of death | Newport, Isle of Wight, England | ||
| Playing position | Outside-right | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1887–1889 | Swindon Town | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1889–1891 | Royal Arsenal | 0 | (0) |
| 1891 | Burnley | 0 | (0) |
| 1891–1893 | Swindon Town | 0 | (0) |
| 1893–1895 | Southampton St Mary's | 13 | (4) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Henry Thomas "Harry" Offer (1871 – 12 January 1947) was an English footballer who scored Arsenal's first-ever goal in the FA Cup "proper" rounds in 1891, and Southampton's first-ever league goal in 1894.
Offer was born in Devizes, Wiltshire and played for Swindon Town as a teenager, playing in defence in each of Swindon's FA Cup matches in 1887–88 and 1888–89, both of which ended in defeat, to Old Brightonians and Great Marlow respectively.
In September 1889, Offer moved to London to join Royal Arsenal. At this time, the club were not fully professional and played mainly friendlies and Cup matches. They entered the FA Cup for the first time in 1889–90, but failed to get past the qualifying rounds. The following season, they entered the cup at the First Round proper, losing 2–1 to Derby County on 17 January 1891 with Offer scoring Arsenal's goal. In total, Offer played four times in the FA Cup for Arsenal, with one goal to his name, as well as 52 appearances and 16 appearances in other first-team games.
In February 1891, Offer moved to join Burnley, where he failed to break into the first-team, before returning to Swindon Town later that year. Now playing as a forward, he scored one of Swindon's goals in a 4–3 FA Cup qualifying round defeat to Luton Town on 3 October 1891. The next season, he scored again at Cowes in the first qualifying round on 15 October 1892, and played in the next three qualifying round matches, with Swindon going out to Marlow once again.
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