FORMER Morton striker Joe Harper is to be inducted into the club's hall of fame.

Greenock born and bred Joe signed for Ton from Larkfield Boys' Club, aged 15, in October 1963 and netted his first goal for them in a Summer Cup tourney the following May against Partick.

Part of the Scotland Under-18 squad, he then broke through into the Morton first team, forming a prolific partnership with Joe Mason which saw the duo scoring 74 goals on the way to a title win in 1966/67.

Harper, still in his teens, netted 30 in 41 games, catching the attention of several clubs, including Huddersfield Town, who signed him for £35,000 in February 1967.

Within 18 months he'd returned to his home town club, now in Division One, for a fee of £15,000, carrying on where he left off with 27 goals in 43 games in the 1968/69 season.

After netting nine times in the first 15 games of the following season, it was inevitable he would move on again, and by October 1969, Joe was Aberdeen-bound, for a club record fee of £40,000.

His Morton record was 75 goals in 122 appearances.

Over the next 12 years, Joe’s club career took him from Aberdeen to Everton, to Hibernian and finally back to Pittodrie.

His club career yielded 337 goals in 590 appearances, 320 of those goals being scored for his three Scottish teams.

He is Aberdeen’s record goalscorer with 199 goals in 300 appearances, and won the Scottish Cup, League Cup and Premier League with the Pittodrie club.

Whilst at Hibs he famously netted a hat-trick in the 1974 League Cup final against Celtic.

Joe won international caps after leaving Morton for the second time and made his final Scotland appearance, aged 30, at the 1978 World Cup coming as a substitute against Iran.

He is already a member of the Aberdeen FC Hall of Fame and was inducted into the Scotland Hall of Fame in 2019.

Now he will be inducted into the Ton hall of fame at the club's end of season Player of the Year and Hall of Fame dinner.