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History of Canadian Soccer
by Colin Jose
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Overseas Tours by Canadian Teams: Canadian Players on the 1891 Tour:
Walter Wells Bowman – Born: Waterloo, Ontario, August 11, 1870. Died: Butte, Montana.
Forward, Berlin Rangers. A-Internationals 2. Clubs: Accrington
1892, Ardwick 1892–94, Manchester City 1894 to 1900. Also a member
of the Canadian-American team that toured Britain in 1891 and early
1892. Bowman remained in England after the rest of the team
returned to North America and signed with Accrington, one of the
original members of the Football League. He played five games and
scored three goals for the club late in the 1892 season. On August
25, 1892, he was signed by the Manchester club, Ardwick, recently
admitted to the new Division Two of the Football League. When
Ardwick went bankrupt in 1894 and Manchester City was formed and
took its place in Division Two, Bowman remained with the club,
making a total of 47 appearances and scoring three goals for the two
clubs between 1892 and 1900. While with Accrington (the name
Stanley was added later), Bowman probably became the first
Canadian-born player to play in the Football League. Last heard of
living in Butte, Montana, in 1929.
Walter Ellis Buckingham – Born: Stratford, Ontario, in 1872. Died: Guelph, Ontario, June 5, 1949. Graduated from the University of Toronto in 1891, and in his student days, was the university cross-country champion runner and a member of the famous Varsity soccer teams of 1889 and 1890. He went on to practise law in Guelph for many years, and became very active in civic affairs, becoming Chairman of the Board of Education, President of the Chamber of Commerce and President of the Wellington County Law Association. C. Forrester
Alexander Noble Garrett
– Born: Biddulph Township (near St. Mary’s), Ontario, 1865. Died:
Toronto, Ontario, January 17, 1941. Goalkeeper. Attended the
University of Toronto in 1884 and 1885, taking an Arts course, but
did not graduate. Also toured Britain with the Canadian-American
team in 1891. Sports editor of the Toronto Daily World for
25 years. Considered one of this country's best-known sports
writers. In addition to being an outstanding soccer player, he also
excelled at baseball, and played cricket and football as well as
being a curler and a lawn bowler. A member of the Toronto Granite
Club and a Mason. W.M. Hill W.S.S. Manison Edward Cumming Senkler K.C. – Born: Brockville, Ontario, July 4, 1865. Died: Victoria, British Columbia, May 6, 1950. A law student at the University of Toronto and Osgoode Hall, he was called to the Bar at Easter in 1892. He later moved to the west coast, where he was the secretary of the Law Society of British Columbia from 1913 to 1947, the longest serving secretary in the society’s history. Prior to his career at the Law Society, he had practised in Nelson, B.C., before becoming Gold Commissioner to the Yukon Territory from 1898 to 1907 and legal advisor to the Yukon Council from 1907 to 1909. In 1910, he became stipendiary magistrate at the Pas Mission in Saskatchewan. The Toronto Telegram called him “A man with a steady clear head and a true-hearted determination to do the right.” On the British tour of 1891, he scored five goals, including two against Sunderland and one against Everton. Franz H. Thibodo
Walter Proudfoot Thomson
– Born: Toronto, Ontario, 1868. Died: Toronto, January 8, 1932. An
outstanding player during the years before the turn of the century.
Thomson played for Canada against the United States in 1885 and
Scotland in 1888. He was captain of the Canadian teams that toured
Britain in 1888 and 1891, and attracted a great deal of attention
from a number of English teams who were interested in signing him.
However, he turned his back on professional soccer in order to
pursue his ambition of becoming a doctor, and was a general
practitioner in Toronto for 35 years. On retiring from the playing
side of the game, he turned to administration, and attended the
forming meeting of the Ontario Football Association in 1901, being
named to the Match Committee. He was elected president of the
Ontario Football Association in 1902, 1903 and 1904. He attended
Upper Canada College, Galt Collegiate Institute and the University
of Toronto, where he graduated with a B.A. in 1890. In his book
The Blue and White, a history of 50 years of sport at the
University of Toronto, T.A. Reed wrote, "Among all there is none so
worthy of mention as Watty Thomson. For several years the genial 'Watty'
was the life and soul of Varsity Football. As a player, he was
nothing less than a miracle of speed, accuracy and artfulness; as a
centre forward he was a model of unselfishness and a phenomenal shot
on goal; as a captain he was an inspiration and an ideal to his
men. We never shall look upon his like again!" He lived at 84
Dinnick Crescent in Toronto with his wife and son, Bruce. He was a
Presbyterian and a member of the Masons and Oddfellows. Dr. John Clarke Warbrick – Born: Bolton, Ontario. Died: Chicago, Illinois, January 4, 1941. In his college days at the University of Toronto, he starred in all branches of sport, and toured Britain with the national lacrosse team as well as the soccer team. He was also a member of the famous Bolton baseball team of 1884–85. He graduated in medicine from the University of Toronto, and took post-graduate courses in both England and the United States. He later became a leading eye, ear, nose and throat specialist in Chicago.
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