Taylor Harry Image 3 Manchester City 1914

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Fegg Hayes, Staffordshire born inside right Harry Taylor began his football career with local junior sides Chell Heath and Fegg Hayes from where he was signed by local professional club Stoke in 1909, then playing in The Birmingham & District League, scoring 4 goals in 10 matches for The Potters during their 1909-10 campaign. His first spell in League football came with Huddersfield Town whom he joined in 1910 ahead of their first league season but had to wait a season to get into their first team, making his Football League debut against Barnsley in September 1911, scoring in a 2-1 win, and he scored 5 goals in 16 matches for The Terriers in 1911-12 before returning to The Potteries to join Central League club Port Vale for £30 in May 1912, but before having played for The Valiants he was bought by First Division club Manchester City for a reported £300 in June 1912.

He played in approximately half of Manchester City’s matches during their 1912-13 campaign and was increasingly a regular in their following two seasons, helping them to the 1914 FA Cup quarter final in 1914 where they were beaten in two replays by Sheffield United, then scoring 11 times during their 1914-15 campaign, the final peacetime campaign before the onset of the First World War forced the suspension of peacetime football in May 1915.

The War severely interrupted his career, and when peacetime football resumed in 1919, he returned to Maine Road although he was a fringe player, scoring 4 goals in 6 matches in their 1919-20 campaign, playing just once more for The Citizens the following season having scored 28 goals in 71 matches either side of the War, leaving Manchester City in 1921 to re-join Port Vale, for whom he didn’t make any further appearances during 1921-22. His playing career thereafter is uncertain.