Harry Ness
{{short description|English footballer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2016}}
{{Use British English|date=April 2016}}
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| fullname = Harry Marshall Ness
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| birth_date =8 June 18851939 England and Wales RegisterEngland & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915
| birth_place = Scarborough, Yorkshire, EnglandHarry Marshall Ness in Barnsley. Occupation: Footballer professional. 1911 England Census.
| death_date = 26 June 1957 (age 72)
| death_place = Scarborough, Yorkshire, EnglandEngland & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007
| position = Full Back
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| years2 =1911–1920
| years3 =1920–1921
| clubs1 = Barnsley
| clubs2 =Sunderland
| clubs3 =Aberdeen
| caps1 = | goals1 = | caps2 = 101 | goals2 = 0
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| nationalcaps1= 1 | nationalgoals1 = 0
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Harry Marshall Ness (8 June 1885 – 26 June 1957) was an English footballer who played for Barnsley and Sunderland. He was a full back.
Club career
Harry Ness was part of the Barnsley side that contested the 1910 FA Cup Final.{{cite book|author1=Mark Metcalf|author2=David Wood|title=Lifting the Cup: The Story of Battling Barnsley, 1910-12|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XwD2ELIGMcYC&pg=PA69|date=November 2010|publisher=Casemate Publishers|isbn=978-1-84563-136-9|pages=69–}} They lost in a replay 2–0 to Newcastle United. He transferred to Sunderland in 1911.{{Cite web|url=http://www.a-love-supreme.com/100%20greatest/90-81.htm|title=SAFC The Top 100|accessdate=2008-07-01|publisher=A Love Supreme|author=|archive-date=20 July 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080720093221/http://www.a-love-supreme.com/100%20greatest/90-81.htm|url-status=dead}}
He was a FA Cup runner up again in 1913 FA Cup Final when Sunderland were beaten 1–0 by Aston Villa but he did get a league winners' medal as Sunderland topped the table.
In 1916, Ness enlisted with 42nd Battalion of the Royal Highlanders (Black Watch) and first went to Perth to train.{{cite news|title=Football - Notes of To-Day's Matches|url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000687/19160304/283/0014|accessdate=12 August 2017|work=Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer|date=4 March 1916}}
In May 1920, he was transferred to Aberdeen.{{cite news|title=Football|url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000324/19200524/020/0003|accessdate=12 August 2017|work=Hull Daily Mail|url-access=subscription |date=24 May 1920}} He suffered an injury in a pre-season match but was reported to have made a complete recovery by October 1920, and played for their reserve team.{{cite news|title=Aberdeen's Team to Meet Hiberians|accessdate=12 August 2017|url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000563/19201007/091/0007|work=Dundee Evening Telegraph|url-access=subscription |date=7 October 1920}} Some incident occurred, as in May 1921, he filed a claim against Aberdeen with the SFA for £132 ({{Inflation|UK|132|1921|r=-3|fmt=eq|cursign=£}}).{{cite news|title=Forty-Two Clubs Exempted from Qualifying Cup Competition|url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000164/19210520/044/0004|accessdate=12 August 2017|work=Dundee Courier|url-access=subscription |date=20 May 1921}} The next month, it was reported that Aberdeen came to a settlement with Ness.{{cite news|title=Football notes|url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000164/19210609/092/0006|accessdate=12 August 2017|work=Dundee Courier|url-access=subscription |date=9 June 1921}} In August of that year, it was reported that Aberdeen would transfer Ness.{{cite news|title=First League Players Who Are Still Unsigned|url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000566/19210807/124/0015|accessdate=12 August 2017|work=The Sunday Post|url-access=subscription |date=7 August 1921}}
Post-career
He married Laura Hurd in 1924. He later worked as a publican in Scarborough, where he died in 1957.England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005