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History of Canadian Soccer
by Colin Jose
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Great Teams Westminster Royals, 1927–28 Player Biographies George Anderson – Full Back Born: Bathgate, Scotland. He learned the game with Ladysmith juniors, then joined the senior team before moving on to nearby Cumberland to join the Canadian Collieries team, and played in the Challenge Cup final of 1925–1926 season. He signed for the Royals in October of 1927, but didn’t get into the lineup until February 20, 1928, due to the fact that he had sustained a broken leg playing for the Pacific Coast League All-Stars against the English F.A. in 1926. He played in the 1928, 1930 and 1936 Canadian Challenge Cup finals for the Royals. Played for Upper Island and the Pacific Coast League against England in 1926, and for the B.C. Lower Mainland against Wales in 1929. Played in every one of the six internationals played against Australia in 1924 in that country, and in fact, appears to have played in every game on the tour. He was described as being “A back of the finest type. Frail but a deadly kicker and grand tackler.”
Born: London, England, December 25, 1904. Died: Toronto, Ontario, June 6, 2006. Was brought to Canada by his parents in 1906 and grew up in Winnipeg. Played Canadian rugby for the Winnipeg Victoria team that won the Western Canada junior rugby championship in 1924; called up to join the senior team that was to have represented the West in the Grey Cup that year. A basketball player of repute in both Winnipeg and Vancouver, he captained the Winnipeg Canoe Club basketball team in the 1923–24 season to the Dowler Trophy, and kept goal for Winnipeg Westerlea and Brits in Manitoba soccer during the early twenties. In 1926, he moved to Vancouver and was goalkeeper for Empire Stevedores, 1926–27, winners of the Mainland Cup that year, before signing with Westminster Royals where he was the goalkeeper during the 1927–28 season. He was particularly adept at repelling high shots. After the Royals won the national championship, he moved to Toronto where he played for Maple Leafs and C.N.R. In the 1930s, he worked as a mine manager in Northern Ontario and spent the years of World War Two working as production manager for York Arsenals.
Born: Leeds, Yorkshire, England. Played for Edmonton C.N.R. and Ladysmith before joining the Westminster Royals. A member of the Canadian team that toured Australia in 1924. A winger who was on the small side, but who combined well with Dave Turner for the Royals. Reports say that he rarely wasted a ball, that most of his centres were models of accuracy and that he had wonderful control and could also shoot from all angles.
Born: Hamilton, Scotland in 1902. Died: White Rock, B.C., November 16, 1960. Jack Coulter was a centre forward who looked clumsy and awkward, as many great goalscorers do, but his looks were deceiving. It was said of him that he was always laying up on his backs, and was ever ready to dart through to the inside men’s passes and that he could shoot like a bullet with either foot on the run and was the terror of opposing goalkeepers. He played for the Garrison in Victoria and for Esquimalt before joining the Royals. He was a member of the Royals team that won the national championship in 1928, 1930 and 1936. In those three finals, he scored 14 goals, and in the 1936 semi-final, seven goals in one game against Calgary Callies, when the Royals won 12–0. Jack also won the Province Cup, the championship of B.C., with the Royals in 1930, 1931 and 1936. On retiring as a player, he helped organize the New Westminster Junior and Juvenile Soccer Association, and coached the Royals team that lost the Canadian final to Montreal Stelco in 1952. During his working hours, he was a fire warden. He died in White Rock Hospital from injuries suffered in a car crash.
Born: Birkenhead, England. Died: Vancouver, B.C., December 4, 1958. Played left half for the Royals and before that, Vancouver City. With the Royals, he won the national championship in 1928 and 1930. He also played for the Vancouver All-Stars versus England in 1926. Those who saw him play say he was a veritable box of tricks, and a deadly tackler, despite his height and weight, but could rise higher for a ball than many other players. He was often found up with his forwards in triangular movements, but was so fast that he could recover and get back quickly when beaten. After he retired from playing, he became a journalist with the Vancouver Sun and wrote soccer columns starting in the 1930s. Later he became known as “Little Poison” for his hard-hitting comments.
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