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The Pacific Coast League
In the summer of 1926 a team representing the Pacific Coast League, played the English F.A. touring team in Vancouver and were soundly beaten 9-1. The PCSL team was Orr (Canadian Collieries) – George Anderson (Westminster United), Ernie Edmunds (Nanaimo) – Jack Monaghan (Canadian Collieries), George Russell (Westminster United), Dickie Stobbart (Nanaimo) – Fred Wilson (North Shore United), Alex Cameron (Varsity), Alex Fowler (Canadian Collieries), Martin (Westminster United), Hitchens (Canadian Collieries).
The Vancouver Sun of February 27, 1926 reports that “Charlie Callin resigned as president of the Pacific Coast Football League which is at open war with the Lower Mainland Football League, at a meeting in Nanaimo last night. Mr. Callin is president of the BCFA, the provincial governing body, and found that he could not serve the two acceptably. A committee was appointed to find a new president.”
The internal warfare between the various B.C. soccer organizations continued into 1927, when the Dominion of Canada Football Association appointed a commission to administer soccer in B.C.
1930 – Pacific Coast League
The third Pacific Coast League was formed August 30, 1930 with Archie Sinclair as president and Vic Sortwell as secretary. However, it was not until September 18, 1930 that a full meeting was held to appoint officers. On that day James Corral was elected president and Robert ‘Bob’ Davidson, secretary/treasurer. The opening game was played on September 27, between two Vancouver teams St. Andrews and St. Saviours. The league continued to operate until 1934.
Westminster Royals and Nanaimo City met in the first play off final with the Royals winning 4-0 on the Mainland and Nanaimo winning 3-2 in the Coal City. Thus the Royals won 6-3 on aggregate and were awarded the Con Jones Memorial Trophy following the May 28 game.
1931-32 – The annual meeting of the PCFL was held August 22, adjourned, and then continued on August 29. George Kilgour Morton was elected president.
1932-33 – The annual meeting of the PCFL was held on Saturday, August 20. George Kilgour Morton was re-elected president and Robert ‘Bob’ Davidson, secretary/treasurer. At this meeting it was decided that the organization would govern itself and become the Pacific Coast Football Association, splitting from the B.C.F.A.
1933-34 – The annual meeting of the PCFL was held August 19, but not completed, and reconvened August 29. Confusion reigned. Bob Davidson acted as both president and secretary at the meeting.
1935-38 An Inter-Cities League was formed out of the collapse of the PCFL with basically the same teams. By this time the financial depression was hitting soccer hard and attendances were down.
1939 – Pacific Coast League
The new Pacific Coast League came into being in September of 1939 with Tommy Nelson as the president and Jock Hendry as the secretary. It continued to operate through the years of World War Two with Tommy Nelson as the President.
At the annual meeting of August 23, 1947, Scotty McNair was elected President while Jock Hendry remained as the secretary. In the following three years Jim Seggie was President and Bill Findler the Secretary.
At various times in the years that followed Jock Hendry was President, as was G.G. Lunn, Bob Paton and Charles Alcock. The Secretary for most of these years was Horace Lear.
In 1956 the PCSL switched from a Fall-Winter schedule to a Summer schedule. This system lasted for three summers before at the 1959 meeting the league reverted to a Fall-Winter schedule.
1960 saw the election of Bill Findler as president for the first of three, three year terms. Findler came to B.C. from Alberta just before Christmas 1930, and played for the Westminster Royals, Vancouver St. Andrews and Vancouver North Shore in the PCFL throughout the 1930s. He was followed at the helm by Len Burkinshaw, Ken Howarth and Fred Whittaker. Bill Legge was the secretary.
During the 1960s and early 1970s, the league awarded the Austin Delany Memorial Trophy to its Most Valuable Player. Delany an outstanding player with Westminster Royals in the 1920s and 1930s, turned to journalism when his playing career was over, and wrote for many years for the Vancouver Sun and Province. Some of the winners of the Trophy were Ken Pears (1962), Bob Bissett (1964), Tony Canta (1965), Greg Weber (1970) and Dave Stothard.
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