Henry (Harry) Logan: played 11, only on the winning side once.

By Tony Attwood

We’re currently looking at the players who were used during the early days of Henry Norris’ time at Arsenal.  It is an interesting point, I feel, not just because of the historical record, but because the accusation was made many years after Norris’ death that Norris himself restricted his managers work in the transfer market.

At the end of this article you’ll see a list of all the players used by Woolwich Arsenal in 1910/11 – Norris’ first season at Plumstead – with links to the relevant articles.  Now we move on to Harry Logan.

And the first problem we have is with his name.  Different sources call him “Harry Logan” (the name we think he was known by, at the club) Henry McDaid Logan and Henry Morrison Logan.   I’m sticking with Harry Logan.

Harry was born on 17 July 1888 in Glasgow and signed for Arsenal on 5 July 1910 from Sunderland, having previously played for Shettleston.

Shettleston Football Club is still with us, based in Shettleston, in the East End of Glasgow.    They were formed in 1903.  I have no details of his matches with either Shettleston, and only a note that he played twice for Sunderland in the season before he joined Arsenal, but we do have the details of his performances with Arsenal.

I have seen it written that Harry Logan made his debut in a 1-1 draw against Burnley in September but all the data I have shows him playing on 3 September against Bury, in a 1-1 draw, playing initially at insight left, and later in the season at inside right.

The tragedy for the player, and indeed perhaps the reason that after this run of games he seems to have packed in professional football was that despite playing 11 games he was only once on the winning side.  Indeed his final match (a draw) came just as Arsenal picked themselves up and started the 11 match unbeaten run which took them away from relegation and up to midtable in the league.

All his games were in the League – he did not play in the FA Cup.

And that is all we know.  If you know any more please do write in.

Here now is the list of players used in the season with links to their articles.  Articles for the remaining players are being added on a regular basis.

Player	Position	Games	Goals	Pens
Edwin Bateup	Goalkeeper	30
George Burdett	Goalkeeper	10
Leslie Adair Calder	Forward	1
Frederick J Calvert	Forward	1
John Chalmers	Centre forward	31	16
Alfred Common	Inside forward	31	6
Andrew Ducat	Wing half	35	3	1
John Flanagan	Inside forward	10	1
Archie Gray	Full back	28
David Greenaway	Outside right	22	2
Frank Heppinstall	Outside left	5
Gordon Rahere Hoare	Forward	16	7
Charles Henry Lewis	Forward	36	2
Harry Logan	Forward	11
Duncan McDonald	Full back	1
Roddy McEachrane	Half back	32
Angus McKinnon	Left half	10
David Neave	Outside left	16	3
John Charles Peart	Full back	7
James Alfred Quayle	Full back	1
Willis Rippon	Inside forward	9	2
Percy Sands	Centre half	33
Joseph E Shaw	Full back	37
Matthew Shortt	Inside forward	4
Matthew Thomson	Half back	17
Thomas Winship	Outside left	6

 

An index of all the articles in the evolving series of Henry Norris at the Arsenal appears here.

Details of all the main series of articles we have developed are here.