| Chris Porter | |
| Fullname: | Thomas Christopher Porter |
| Birth Date: | 25 October 1885 |
| Birth Place: | Stockport, England |
| Death Place: | Gallipoli, Ottoman Turkey |
| Position: | Inside forward |
| Years1: | 1903– |
| Clubs1: | Broughton |
| Clubs2: | Northern Nomads |
| Years3: | 1905–1908 |
| Clubs3: | Stockport County |
| Caps3: | 66 |
| Goals3: | 23 |
| Years4: | 1909–1911 |
| Clubs4: | Glossop |
| Caps4: | 44 |
| Goals4: | 11 |
| Clubs5: | Northern Nomads |
| Nationalyears1: | 1908–1910 |
| Nationalteam1: | England Amateurs |
| Nationalcaps1: | 7 |
| Nationalgoals1: | 7 |
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,[2] and against France in a 11–0 victory.[3] 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.[3] 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.[4] Porter also played cricket for Broughton and Lancashire's second XI.
Porter attended Manchester Grammar School and later worked at the Horwich depot of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway.[5] He enlisted as a private in the Manchester Regiment during the First World War and was killed at Gallipoli on 4 June 1915.[6] Porter is commemorated on the Helles Memorial.
| Season | League | FA Cup | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |||
| Stockport County | 1905–06[7] | Second Division | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | |
| 1906–07 | 22 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 7 | |||
| 1907–08 | 24 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 25 | 8 | |||
| 1908–09 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 5 | |||
| Career total | 66 | 23 | 2 | 0 | 68 | 23 | |||
England Amateurs score listed first, score column indicates score after each Porter goal.
| scope=col | No. | scope=col | Date | scope=col | Venue | scope=col | Opponent | scope=col | Score | scope=col | Result | scope=col | Competition | scope=col class=unsortable | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| scope=row | 1 | 13 March 1909 | Oxford ground, Oxford, England | 9–0 | |||||||||||
| scope=row | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| scope=row | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| scope=row | 4 | 12 April 1909 | Oud Rosenburg, Amsterdam, Netherlands | 4–0 | |||||||||||
| scope=row | 5 | 22 May 1909 | Stade de FGSPF, Gentilly, France | 11–0 | |||||||||||
| scope=row | 6 | ||||||||||||||
| scope=row | 7 |