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Tommy Mort
Personal information
Full name Thomas Mort
Date of birth (1897-12-01)1 December 1897
Place of birth Kearsley, England
Date of death 6 June 1967(1967-06-06) (aged 69)
Place of death Wigan, England
Position Full-back
Youth career
Farnworth Council School
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Kearsley St. Stephens
Newton Lads Club
Lancashire Fusiliers (wartime)
Altrincham
1921–1922 Rochdale 28 (0)
1922–1935 Aston Villa 337 (2)
International career
1924–1926 England 3 (0)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Thomas Mort (1 December 1897 – 6 June 1967) was an English footballer who played club football primarily for Aston Villa, as a left-back. He also made three appearances for the England national team between 1924 and 1926.[1]

Villa signed Tommy Mort from Rochdale for £1,000 in 1922 and along with Tommy Smart, was part of a defensive tandem known for Villa as "Death and Glory."[2] He played 13 seasons with the club with 337 appearances.

He travelled with Villa on their first foreign tour im May. Örgryte celebrated a major success when beating Villa 5–2. Villa were defeated by Gothenburg-combined (Kombinerol Gotesburgslag) while the tourers won 11 - 2 over the select Oslo-combined Lyn og Frig including FK Lyn & Frigg Oslo players.[3]

He was a cousin of Cardiff City defender Enoch Mort.[4]

Honours

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Aston Villa

References

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  1. "England Players - Tommy Mort". englandfootballonline.com. Retrieved 22 March 2025.
  2. Thomas Mort, Aston Villa Player Database.
  3. https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780956984876/page/24/mode/2up?q=johnstone
  4. "Coventry Combination". Coventry Evening Telegraph. 10 February 1934. p. 6. Retrieved 2 April 2018 via British Newspaper Archive.
  5. Vernon, Leslie; Rollin, Jack (1977). Rothmans Football Yearbook 1977–78. London: Brickfield Publications Ltd. p. 488. ISBN 0354-09018-6.