Harrison Eke | |
Birth Date: | February 1888 |
Birth Place: | Oakington, England |
Death Place: | Bexleyheath, England |
Position: | Inside-right |
Clubs1: | St. Mary's Cray |
Years2: | 1913 |
Clubs2: | Southampton |
Caps2: | 1 |
Goals2: | 0 |
Harrison Eke (February 1888 – 30 April 1917) was an English professional footballer who played as an inside-right in the Southern Football League for Southampton.[1]
Eke worked as a milkhand. On 21 September 1914, a month after the outbreak of the First World War, he enlisted in the Royal Fusiliers.[2] Serving as a private, Eke contracted tuberculosis during service and was medically discharged on 7 June 1916. He died of the disease on 30 April 1917 in Bexleyheath and was buried in Bexleyheath Cemetery.
Season | Division | League | FA Cup | Total | |||||
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Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||||
Southampton | 1913–14 | Southern League First Division | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
Career total | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |