Some idea of the scope of the W.F.A. can be seen from the make-up of the executives in 1910 and 1912 and from the list of secretaries of the clubs and the towns the referees came from.

The executive of the Western Football Association in 1910 was as follows:  Hon. President, D.A. McLachlan (Stratford); President, Dr. R. Lederman (Milverton); Hon. Secretary, D. Forsyth, B.A. (Berlin); Secretary-Treasurer, Thomas G. Elliott (Galt); District Vice-Presidents: Southern, G.C. Wilson, M.P.P. (Dundas); Oxford, E.A. Rae (Woodstock); Central, R.S. Hamilton, B.A. (Galt); Perth, J. McCutcheon, B.A. (Stratford); Huron, F. Sills (Seaforth); London, W. Govenlock, B.A. (London); Bruce, Dr. L. Doering (Mildmay); Grey, A.E. McNabb (Walkerton); Niagara, G.S. Phemister (Niagara Falls); Peel, Rev. S.R. Robinson (Caledon).

In 1910, those who refereed in the Western Football Association came from the following towns: Atwood, Berlin, Brussels, Caledon, Chesley, Elmira, Galt, Guelph, Ingersoll, Listowel, London, Mildmay, Milverton, Mono Mills, Niagara Falls, Owen Sound, Preston, Seaforth, Stratford, Strathroy, Tavistock, Walkerton, Waterloo and Woodstock.

In 1912, the executive of the Western Football Association was as follows:  President, T.G. Elliott (Galt); First Vice- President, Frank Sills (Seaforth); Second Vice-President, E.A. Rea Phm.B. (Woodstock); Hon. President, D. Forsyth, B.A.. (Berlin); Secretary-Treasurer, H.W. Brown, B.A. (Berlin).  Other members of the Executive: J.M. McCutcheon, B.A. (Stratford); Louis Doering, D.D.S. (Mildmay); T.G. Ratcliffe (Atwood); H.C. Zimmerman (Tavistock); James Ballantyne (Brussels); James G. Gunn (Woodstock).

The W.F.A. secretaries and the clubs they represented in 1912 were as follows: Seniors: Russell Sandercock (Woodstock), A. Hahan (Tavistock), George A. Jackson (Stratford), E.E. Hardisty (St. Mary's), J.A. Baynes (Granton). Intermediate: Fred R. Harrison (Niagara Falls), Frank Prine (St. George), H. Kavelman (New Dundee), James Weepers (Galt), W. Halberstadt (Preston), F.R. Johnson (Hespeler), Andy Brown (Berlin Rangers), H. Schmidt (Berlin Tigers), W.H. McIntosh (Brucefield), Harry Scott (Seaforth), Glen Armstrong (Brussels), E.R. Wilkinson (Wingham), W. Shearer (Poole), N.R. Boyce (Milverton), C.F. Gibson (Listowel), George Helwig (Mildmay), Norman Huck (Walkerton), Bert McGee (Hanover), J.C. McDonald (Owen Sound), A.A. Bamford (London), D.A. McKinney (St. Thomas).

The annual meeting in 1912 brought an address from Louis Blake Duff, the manager of the Galt team that won the Gold Medal at the 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis, Missouri. The transcript appeared in the Toronto Globe of April 9, 1908. "The influx of old country men in the last few years has added something to our football, and, I feel constrained to say, has taken something away.  From among these new Canadians we have obtained a few good referees and a number of good players, men who are desirable as members of our association. There are others again who have shown a fine contempt for the decencies of sport and have been totally lacking in loyalty to the association in which they are registered. Your officers have had to meet onslaughts of impertinence and insolence. I feel that we have a very warm welcome for the Britisher who comes to us with a tender of hearty and loyal service. If he has not these gifts in his hands we would be better without him.

" … this association should be represented in the football competition in the Olympic games at London this year. The Western, as everybody knows, is the daddy of all the associations on this side of the Atlantic. It was within the confines of the W.F.A. that the game had its birth in America, and today, after a growth of twenty-nine years, I venture to say there is no other association in the new world controlling so many players and clubs and none in which the article of football is superior.

"We are told often enough that a Canadian football team could not hope to compete successfully against the best in the old land, and it is doubtless true that the standard of football in the mother country is considerably superior to that here. However, I have no fear but that a representative team from this association would make a very creditable showing in any competition. It is just twenty years ago that a team from the Western Football Association played a series of 23 games in Great Britain and Ireland, winning 9, losing 9 and drawing 5, scoring 30 goals and having 41 goals scored against them. The West Bromwich Albions, English champions of the year, defeated the Canadians by only 1 to 0. It would seem that even in those early days Canadian football did not suffer from comparison with the old land game."

At the annual meeting in 1927, as reported in the Toronto Globe, the W.F.A. urged the national governing body to allow substitutions.  "At the WFA-AGM in April of 1927 the WFA with a view to somewhat Canadianising soccer, decided to ask the Dominion Association through the Ontario body to grant associations the right to make local rules permitting the use of substitutes, as in hockey, and to give referees power for short or long periods as the case warrants as provided for in hockey.

L.W. Appel, of Tavistock, in outlining his reasons for introducing the suggestions stated that the backbone of the W.F.A. is the small town team, and he said soccer in the smaller centres has been losing ground steadily of late. He disagreed with Secretary Muir, that soccer in keeping with other sports had lost ground of late owing to business depression, stating that it was going back because it was not modern enough. He stated that in Tavistock hockey was booming and soccer slipping and he suggested the Canadian methods of substitutes and penalties as a possible means of speeding up the game and creating greater interest. Hockey, he said, had improved 75 per cent with the advent of subs and he thought soccer would also experience a boom. Ten years ago he pointed out, a $200 soccer gate in Tavistock, a town of 1,000, was not uncommon and now the club is lucky to get $30.