David "Davie" Morris

David "Davie" Morris was born in Newhaven in Edinburgh in 1897, the son of a local mother and a father from next-door in Leith, a docker cum seaman. And seventy-four years later he would die just round the corner but having played both north, south and finally on the border and as a centre-half at the more defensive end albeit of the Scottish spectrum won six caps. 

And his football too had begun in Leith with Hawthorn, then a period at Newtongrange Star, whilst working as shipwright before somewhat bizarrely not being signed by any of the bigger, local teams but Raith Rovers and as a replacement for Willie Porter as he joined Hearts but played hardly a game. 

Thus it was almost by chance that at Stark's Park Davie would find himself not only over the next five seasons making just short of two hundred League starts but at the centre of and captaining some team. Bill Collier was alongside him, Alex James up ahead, the club reaching third place in the League, the highest ever achieved. Moreover, when he went South in 1925, now an international, to Preston North End, following James almost immediately, Collier already having gone to Sheffield Wednesday, by the end of the season the Kirkcaldy club was down.  

Davie Morris was at Deepdale to spend another five seasons to 1930, captain once more. By then he was coming up to thirty-three, would have a season at Chester, another for Dundee United before a pause, followed by a single appearance for Berwick Rangers, only then with the curtain finally came down. He returned to Leith and his previous trade, there living out the rest of live with his wife and family. In 1925 still in the port he had, between Raith and North End, married coincidently Eliza Preston. They were to have two daughters, the younger one sadly dying in 1948 aged seventeen of tuberculosis.  

And it would be still in Leith/Ediinburgh that both Davie and Eliza would pass away, Davie in 1971 at the age of seventy-four to be cremated at Warriston Cemetery, Eliza a decade later in 1981 at eighty-three. 

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