…of Perth (Scotland)

David Forsyth

( b. 1852…

“…The Father of Canadian Soccer…”

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Berlin Rangers

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As befitting the Father of anything, David was present at the very beginning of Canadian ‘soccer’ on the Footballing World’s stage…

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Time-Line…

1853… The Forsyth family up sticks & make for British North America with David barely one year old…

Early 1880’s… “…acquiring an interest in ‘Soccer’ at university, he was also chiefly responsible for popularizing the sport, not just at the school, but the Berlin* area, generally…”

The Berlin/Kitchener question, 1916…coming soon…

The citizens of Berlin (…now going by the name of Kitchener…) are offered by manner of referendum, on whether to keep its traditional Germanic name or change it to something a bit more patriotic as WWI starts to heat up…

*‘Soccer’…a rather clumsy contraction of AsSOCiation FootER…

1880-’83… Wins 4 Western Football Association Challenge cups for Berlin High School…

1884… Founding member of the Berlin Rangers…