Career
He was the first black man to represent Australia and, along with Andrew Symonds, is one of only two people of West Indian heritage to do southern Morris was one of nine Australian Test players to make his debut in the second Test of the 1884-1885 series against England. Selectors were forced to choose an entirely new team after the eleven of the first Test refused to play over a dispute concerning payment of players.
Morris took two wickets in the match, including English captain Arthur Shrewsbury, and made just fourteen runs (4 as an opener in the first innings, 10 not out in the second batting at number ten) as Australia lost by ten wickets.
His mother Elizabeth McGuiness was Tasmanian of West Indian descent and his father Isaac Morris was from Barbados had traveled to Australia in the gold-rush years of the 1840s. He was born in Hobart, Tasmania, in 1855, Samuel initially played cricket in Daylesford before being enticed to play cricket in Melbourne.
Played his club cricket in Victoria for Melbourne"s Street Kilda club where he later became the groundsman at Richmond (Punt Road Oval), Melbourne University and South Melbourne before suffering from blindness in his later years. He had an excellent record as a cricketer and had troops of friends who would never see him in want.
