Vic Harris (snooker player)

{{Short description|English snooker player (1945–2015)}}

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{{Infobox snooker player

|name = Vic Harris

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|birth_date = {{Birth date|1945|8|16|df=y}}

|birth_place = Westcliffe-on-Sea, Essex

|death_date = {{Death date and age|2015|3|10|1945|8|16|df=y}}

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|Sport country = {{ENG}}

|Professional = 1981–1992, 1998/1999

|High ranking = 63{{cite web|last=Hendon|first=Dave|title=Vic Harris dies|url=http://www.inside-snooker.com/snooker/2015/3/11/vic-harris-dies|publisher=Inside Snooker|access-date=11 March 2015|date=11 March 2015}}

| Official maximums =

|Best finish = Last 32 (x3)

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Vic Harris (16 August 1945 – 10 March 2015) was an English snooker player who was born in Westcliffe-on-Sea, Essex,{{Cite web|url=http://www.globalsnookercentre.co.uk/files/Players/Global_Europe/Global_England/eng_vic_harris.htm|title=Player Profile: Tony Drago|access-date=20 April 2007|publisher=European Billiards & Snooker Association (Unofficial home)|author=Janie Watkins|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070418151116/http://www.globalsnookercentre.co.uk/files/Players/Global_Europe/Global_England/eng_vic_harris.htm|archive-date=18 April 2007|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}} and turned professional in 1981. He identified Steve Davis as a future world champion at the age of 12, and was the first to spot the talent of Tony Drago when Drago won the Maltese amateur title in 1984.{{Cite web|url=http://www.globalsnookercentre.co.uk/files/Players/Global_Europe/Global_Malta/malta_tony_drago.htm|title=Player Profile: Tony Drago|access-date=20 April 2007|publisher=The Global Snooker Centre|year=2005|author=Chris Turner and Janie Watkins|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070815173904/http://www.globalsnookercentre.co.uk/files/Players/Global_Europe/Global_Malta/malta_tony_drago.htm|archive-date=15 August 2007|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}

Harris competed in the professional UK Championship in 1981, 1982, and 1987. He won the English Amateur Championship in 1981.{{Cite web|url=http://www.globalsnookercentre.co.uk/files/Countries/country_england.htm|title=Roll of Honour, English Snooker Championship|publisher=The Global Snooker Centre|access-date=2008-05-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080508195033/http://www.globalsnookercentre.co.uk/files/Countries/country_england.htm|archive-date=2008-05-08|url-status=dead}}

The Vic Harris Snooker League in Essex is named after him.{{Cite web|url=http://www.vhsl.net/|title=Vic Harris Snooker League website|access-date=2008-05-20}}

Harris was interviewed by the BBC during the 2013 World Snooker Championship. He said he had his right ear removed due to cancer, but continued to play regularly in Essex. Harris talked about his role in helping to develop the games of Steve Davis and Stuart Bingham.