Enrique Ramón Morris de Olea, also known as Henry Morris or Morris II (16 June 1876 – Unknown), was an Anglo-Filipino

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pioneer and a prominent

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for

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. His brothers,

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and

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, also played football, and together with them, he was one of the first pioneers of

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, participating in some of the first football matches of the city and playing for several experimental teams in the 1890s such as the ''

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''. In the early 1900s, he was a member of the Hispania AC side that won the

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, which was the very first football competition played on the

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, and a member of the Barça side that reached the

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of the

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Early life

Enrique Morris was born in 1874 in

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, when the Philippines was a Spanish province, as the third child of a marriage formed by two emigrants, the English businessman and engineer

Samuel James Morris Samuel James Morris Campbell (3 February 1842 – 12 December 1909), commonly known as Jaime Morris, was an English businessman and engineer. He is best known for being one of the first pioneers of football in Catalonia, playing as a Goalkeeper (a ...

Campbell (1842–1909) and María del Socorro de Olea y Marabea (1852–1877), a teenager of Basque origin. In 1886 the family moved to

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, where his father had been assigned to run the Barcelona Tramways Company Limited. On the grounds near the

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, their father taught his three sons, Samuel, Enrique (Henry), and Miguel (Júnior) to play football, a sport that was practically unknown in the city at the time.

Playing career

Barcelona Cricket Club

Together with his older brother, Samuel, he was one of the first pioneers of

, being part of the first known club to have played football in the city, the ''Barcelona Cricket Club'', which his father and Samuel, among other Britons, had founded in 1891, since at the time it was common to play

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in the

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and then football in the

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. Samuel and his father then helped founding the ''Barcelona Football Club'' in late 1892, which held the first known football match in the city at

on 25 December 1892. The two of them along with their younger brother, Miguel, appeared in what is regarded to be the oldest photograph of a football team in Spain, taken on 12 March 1893.

Sociedad de Foot-Ball de Barcelona

In late 1894, Morris joined the ''Barcelona Football Club'', which had now changed its name to ''

''. On 27 January 1895, he was one of 16 footballers who featured in the first football match played at Bonanova, and although it is not specified in which position he played, he scored once to help the Blues to a 1–4 win over a Red side that featured his older brother Samuel. He also played against teams from Sant Martí and

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, scoring once against the latter on 24 March 1895, thus helping his side to an 8–3 victory. Following the departure of James Reeves, the club's captain and leader, the Barcelona Football Society declined and disappeared around 1896. The city then went through a period of lack of interest in football, and for this reason, no Briton played football in Spain (that we know of) in 1897 and 1898. Together with the Parsons brothers (

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and

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), the Morris played an important role in the return of football to the city by contributing to the emergence of ''

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'', a team made up of members of the British colony living in Barcelona.

Hispania AC

In October 1900, Enrique, Samuel, and their father took part in the foundation of Hispania AC. Together with John Parsons and

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, the Morris brothers, Samuel as a goalkeeper and Enrique as a forward, played a pivotal role in helping Hispania AC become the very first Spanish club to win an official title, the

, which was the first football competition played on the

. Morris finished the tournament with two goals, one each in 0–10 and 14–0 trashings of Franco-Española. Their youngest brother Miguel eventually joined them in Hispania in 1901.

FC Barcelona

During their time in Hispania, the three Morris brothers joined the ranks of FC Barcelona on two occasions: the first on the occasion of the match against the officers of the British cruise ship HS Calliope on 23 November 1901, where they helped Barça to a 4–0 victory, and the second in May of 1902, when they reinforced FC Barcelona during its participation in the

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(predecessor of

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). Enrique played alongside Miguel in the semifinals against

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(then known as Madrid FC), which was the very first

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in history, and then all three of them played in the

, where Barça was beaten 2–1 by

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(a combination of players from Athletic Club and

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). In doing so, they became the first-ever Filipinos to play for FC Barcelona, ahead of the likes of

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and

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. After this parenthesis with Barça, the Morris brothers continued to play at Hispania AC until 1903, when the club was dissolved for lack of players, but while Samuel retired due to his advanced age, Enrique and Miguel joined FC Barcelona permanently, playing for the club for two years until 1905, and helping Barça win the Catalan championship in 1904–05. In total, he played 4 official matches for Barcelona and scored two goals in the 1904–05 season. Later, in the 1909–10 season, he participated in the First Category Championship of Catalonia with the modest Star FC, becoming its captain and later being joined by Miguel.

Death

Morris fought in the

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as a pilot in the British Royal Air Corps, being shot down and wounded in the abdomen while strafing German positions, although he survived and returned to Spain. The date of his death is unknown.

Honours

Hispania AC *

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: ** Champions: 1900–01 FC Barcelona * Catalan championship ** Champions: 1904–05 *

: ** Runner-up:

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Morris, Enrique 1874 births Year of death missing Spanish people of English descent Spanish people of Basque descent Footballers from Manila Footballers from Barcelona Filipino men's footballers Spanish men's footballers Men's association football forwards FC Barcelona players Immigrants to Spain People from the Spanish East Indies