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Dick Moore

Name: Richard Moore Born: 18 January 1867* Died: 29 October 1918, Salonika (Greece) Position: Left-Half Representative Honours: Ireland: 3 Full Caps (1891) . Club Honours: (with Linfield) Irish League Champion 1890/91 ; Irish Cup Winner 1890/91 ; (with Dundalk) Leinster Senior Cup Runner-Up 1896/97. Club Career: Teams Seasons Signed Fee League FA . Cup Other Linfield - - - - - - Dundalk - - - - - - Linfield - -1897 - - - - Dundalk . Rovers - - - - - - TOTALS - £- - - - Biography: A member of Linfield's 1890/91 "Double" winning side, Dick Moore played in all three of Ireland's matches that season. A career soldier, he played for Dundalk (not the current club) while stationed in the town with the Royal Irish Rifles and appeared for them...

Bob Morrison

Name: Robert Morrison Born: 30 August 1869, Greenock (Scotland) Died: 12 July 1891, Belfast Position: Left-Back Representative Honours: Ireland: 2 Full Caps (1891) . Club Honours: (with Linfield) Irish League Champion 1890/91 ; Irish Cup Winner 1890/91. Club Career: Teams Seasons Signed Fee League FA Cup Other Linfield ??/?? - 90/91 - - - - - TOTALS - £- - - - Biography: Born in Scotland, but raised in south Belfast, Bob Morrison was part of a large footballing family. His brothers Tom “Ching” and Alex both played for Glentoran, but it was with Linfield that Bob made his name. He was regular left-back in the Blues side that claimed the first ever Irish League title in 1890/91. That same season he also played in an Irish Cup Final win over Ulster. Morrison’s performances in Linfield’s “Double” winning...

Tom "Ching" Morrison

Name: Thomas Morrison Born: 1 February   1874, Dromore, Co. Down Died: 26 March 1940, Belfast Position: Outside/Inside-Right Representative Honours: Ireland: 7 Full Caps (1895-1902) ; Irish League: 2 Caps / 1 Goal (1894-1895). Club Honours: (with Glentoran) Irish League Champion 1893/94 ; (with Burnley) Football League Division Two Champion 1897/98 (promoted via play-off); (with Celtic) Scottish League Champion 1895/96 ; "World Champion" 1896 ; Glasgow Merchants Charity Cup Winner 1894/95 . Club Career: Teams Seasons Signed Fee League FA Cup Other Stormont - - - - - - Glentoran 90/91-93/94 - - *26/17 - - Burnley 93/94-02/03 Feb-1894 - 7/ 1 - - Glentoran 94/95 Nov-1894 - *6/ 3 - - Celtic 94/95-96/97 Apr-1895 - 15/ 2 1/0 - Burnley 97...

Eddie Mitchell

Name: Edward James Mitchell Born: 26 September 1912, Whitehouse, Belfast Died: 10 January 1964, Belfast Height: Weight: Position: Outside-Right Representative Honours: Ireland: 2 Full Caps (1932-1933) , 2 Amateur Caps (1933). Club Honours: (with Cliftonville) Gold Cup Winner 1932/33; County Antrim Shield Runner-Up 1930/31; (with Glentoran) Gold Cup Runner-Up 1933/34 . Club Career: Teams Seasons Signed Fee League FA Cup Other 53rd Boy Scouts - - Youth - - - Monkstown - - - - - - Distillery II - - - - - - Brantwood - - - - - - Cliftonville 30/31-32/33 - Amateur - - - Glentoran 33/34 Sep-33 Amateur *30/6 - - Ballymena United 34/35 Aug-34 - * - - Coleraine 34/35...

George Cochrane

Name: George Cochrane Born: Died: Height: Weight: Position: Left-Half Representative Honours: Ireland: 1 Full Cap (1902). Club Honours: (with Cliftonville) Irish Cup Winner 1899/00, 1900/01 . Club Career: Teams Seasons Signed Fee League FA Cup Other Cliftonville - - Amateur - - - TOTALS - £- - - - Biography: Capped for the only time in the Ibrox Disaster Fund match against Scotland at Balmoral Showgrounds in August 1902, George Cochrane was given his chance as Ireland were unable to obtain the release of their English-based players for a match being held outside of the normal International Championship dates. Cochrane twice played in the Irish Cup Final for Cliftonville. In the 1900 final the Reds , who received a bye through the semi-final after their opponents, Kings Own Scottish Borderers, were call...

Alfie Bruce

Name: Alfred Bruce Born: 11 August 1899, Belfast Died: 26 July 1945, Belfast Height: Weight:  Position: Right back Representative Honours: Ireland: 1 Cap (1924) , Amateur: 1 Cap (1923) ; Irish League: 1 Cap (1924) . Club Honours: (with Cliftonville) Charity Cup Winner 1923/24 ; (with Belfast Celtic) County Antrim Shield Runner-Up 1924/25 . Club Career: Teams Seasons Signed Fee League FA Cup Other University - - Amateur - - - Cliftonville 22/23-23/24 c/s-22 Amateur - - - Belfast Celtic 24/25-25/26 May-24 - - - - Willowfield 25/26 Mar-26 - - - - Barn 26/27 -26 - - - - Distillery 27/28 -27 - - - - TOTALS - £- - - - Biography: Alfie Bruce took up football while at Universit...