Chris Porter (footballer, born 1885)

Chris Porter
Personal information
Full name Thomas Christopher Porter[1]
Date of birth (1885-10-25)25 October 1885
Place of birth Stockport, England
Date of death 4 June 1915(1915-06-04) (aged 29)[2]
Place of death Gallipoli, Ottoman Turkey
Position(s) Inside forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1903– Broughton
Northern Nomads
1905–1908 Stockport County 66 (23)
1909–1911 Glossop 44 (11)
Northern Nomads
International career
1908–1910 England Amateurs 7 (7)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Thomas Christopher Porter (25 October 1885 – 4 June 1915) was an English amateur footballer who played in the Football League for Stockport County and Glossop as an inside forward.[1] He scored 7 goals in 4 appearances for England Amateurs, including two hat-tricks in a 9–0 win against Germany, which still is the team's highest defeat of its history,[3] and against France in a 11–0 victory.[4] He scored a further 5 goals for the Amateurs side in unofficial matches, a brace in a 5–1 win over Ireland in 1908 and yet another hat-trick in a 6–0 win over Wales in 1909, bringing his tally to 12 goals.[4] He was also part of Great Britain's squad for the football tournament at the 1908 Summer Olympics, but he did not play in any matches.[5] Porter also played cricket for Broughton and Lancashire's second XI.[6]

Personal life

Porter attended Manchester Grammar School and later worked at the Horwich depot of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway.[6] He enlisted as a private in the Manchester Regiment during the First World War and was killed at Gallipoli on 4 June 1915.[7] Porter is commemorated on the Helles Memorial.[2]

Career statistics

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League FA Cup Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Stockport County 1905–06[8] Second Division 4 3 0 0 4 3
1906–07[8] 22 7 0 0 22 7
1907–08[8] 24 8 1 0 25 8
1908–09[8] 16 5 1 0 17 5
Career total 66 23 2 0 68 23

International goals

England Amateurs score listed first, score column indicates score after each Porter goal.
List of international goals scored by Chris Porter[4]
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition Ref
1 13 March 1909 Oxford ground, Oxford, England  Germany
?
 9–0 Friendly
[9]
2
?
3
?
4 12 April 1909 Oud Rosenburg, Amsterdam, Netherlands  Netherlands
2–0
 4–0
[10]
5 22 May 1909 Stade de FGSPF, Gentilly, France  France
?
 11–0
[11]
6
?
7
?

References

  1. ^ a b Joyce, Michael (2012). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: Tony Brown. p. 233. ISBN 978-1905891610.
  2. ^ a b "Casualty Details". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 31 December 2015.
  3. ^ Bauer, Johannes (18 November 2020). "DFB: Die höchsten Niederlagen der Nationalmannschaft". Süddeutsche (in German). Retrieved 7 March 2021.
  4. ^ a b c "England Matches - The Amateurs 1906-1939". englandfootballonline.com. Archived from the original on 28 March 2022. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
  5. ^ Evans, Hilary (3 May 2015). "Olympians and the Gallipoli Campaigns". OlympStats. Retrieved 31 December 2015.
  6. ^ a b "Chris Porter". Olympedia. Archived from the original on 29 January 2021. Retrieved 25 December 2021.
  7. ^ "Thomas Christopher Porter | Service Record". Football and the First World War. Retrieved 20 June 2018.
  8. ^ a b c d Watts, Ian. "Thomas Porter County Record". gogogocounty.org. Retrieved 18 June 2017.
  9. ^ "England v Germany, 16 March 1909". www.11v11.com. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
  10. ^ "Netherlands v England, 12 April 1909". www.11v11.com. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
  11. ^ "France v England, 22 May 1909". www.11v11.com. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
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