Maurice Mason

{{short description|English footballer}}

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{{use dmy dates|date=September 2014}}

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|fullname = Maurice Mason

|birth_date = {{birth date|1927|6|25|df=y}}

|birth_place = Sedgefield, England

|death_date = June 2008 (aged 80)

|death_place = County Durham, England

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|position = Inside forward

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|years1 = 1948–19?? |clubs1 = Huddersfield Town |caps1 = 0 |goals1 = 0

|years2 = 19??–1952 |clubs2 = Blackhall Colliery Welfare

|years3 = 1952–1953 |clubs3 = Darlington |caps3 = 3 |goals3 = 0

|years4 = 1953–19?? |clubs4 = Blackhall Colliery Welfare

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Maurice Mason (25 June 1927 - June 2008) was an English footballer who played as an inside forward in the Football League for Darlington.{{cite book |editor-first=Barry J. |editor-last=Hugman |title=The PFA Premier & Football League Players' Records 1946–1998 |date=1998 |publisher=Queen Anne Press |isbn=978-1-85291-585-8 |page=370}}{{cite web |url=http://www.neilbrown.newcastlefans.com/darlington/darlington.html |title=Darlington: 1946/47–1988/89 & 1990/91–2009/10 |work=Post War English & Scottish Football League A–Z Players Database |publisher=Neil Brown |accessdate=30 September 2014}}{{Hugman|13289|accessdate=25 September 2015}}

Mason was born in Sedgefield, County Durham. He signed professionally for Huddersfield Town in 1948, but never played for them in the Football League. By 1950, he was playing for North Eastern League club Blackhall Colliery Welfare.{{cite news |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000640/19501013/122/0011 |title=Horden side for F.A. Cup test |newspaper=Sunderland Echo |date=13 October 1950 |page=11 |url-access=subscription |via=British Newspaper Archive}} He was a member of the Blackhall team that reached the first round proper of the FA Cup for the first time in the club's history in 1951–52, contributing the opening goal against Scarborough in the final qualifying round match,{{cite news |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000687/19511115/086/0003 |title=Attack shuffle won cup-tie |newspaper=Yorkshire Post |date=15 November 1951 |page=3 |url-access=subscription |via=British Newspaper Archive}} and scored four times as they beat Ashington 9–2 in the North Eastern League in January 1952.{{cite news |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000344/19521010/046/0003 |title=Colliers receive a rare hiding |last=Collier |newspaper=Morpeth Herald |date=18 January 1952 |page=3 |url-access=subscription |via=British Newspaper Archive}} He played three matches in the Third Division North for Darlington in the 1952–53 Football League season before returning to Blackhall,{{cite news |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000344/19531030/029/0003 |title=Late penalty goal beat Ashington |newspaper=Morpeth Herald |date=30 October 1953 |page=3 |url-access=subscription |via=British Newspaper Archive}} where he played until at least 1954.{{cite news |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000344/19540820/124/0006 |title=Ashington crash at home to Blackhall C.W. |last=Collier |newspaper=Morpeth Herald |date=20 August 1954 |page=3 |url-access=subscription |via=British Newspaper Archive}}