21st of November…
…1885
“CANADIANS theVICTORS!”
“THE PICKED AMERICAN FOOT-BALL TEAM BEATEN!!”
Final Score…
U.S.A 0-1 Canada
A.Gibson (10)
“…The home team had been well selected & played well together, considering they’d had little practice…”
“…Approximately 2,000 people were present, some sixty of whom were ladies…”
The conquering Canadians will try their luck back at the Clark Field the following season for what will turn out to be a rather skullduggerous affair as the Americans will attempt to wreak for themselves a little revenge…
U.S.A v Canada, 1886…here…
Line-Ups…
U.S.A; Hughes (gk), Holden, Lennox, Hood, Joseph Swithenby (c), Turner, McGurk, Young, John Swithenby, Turner, Lucas
Canada; McKendrick (gk), Dowman, Brubacher, Fraser, Malcolm, Forsyth, Palmer, Lamporte, Thomson, A. Gibson, T. Gibson
McKendrick (gk)
Fraser Malcolm
Brubacher Dowman
Forsyth
Palmer T. Gibson
A.Gibson Lamporte
Thomson
McGurk
Lucas B. Turner
Jn. Swithenby Young
A. Turner
Js. Swithenby Hood
Holden Lennox
Hughes (gk)
Gentleman of our Game…
Fittingly, the ‘Father of Canadian Football ’…
…& Canadian Captain that day, imperiously controls all aspects of the marvellously muddy Mid-field, leaving the field at Full-Time without so much as a mark on his pristine white shorts…
Alexander Forsyth
One In…
Theda Bara…
In: 29th of July…
…The “Bewitcher of man…”, the shapely ‘She-Devil’ herself was the Egyptian-born daughter of a French actress & an Italian sculptor/an Arab Sheik & a woman of the night, born in the shadow of the Sphinx (can’t you tell..?)…
…Theodosia Goodman, Hollywoodland’s original ‘Vamp’, is actually born into a nice Jewish family in Cincinnati - or should that be Sin-cinati…
“…I will continue to play ‘Sinners’ as long as people continue to sin…”
Er, No !
…One Out
…Robert Emmet Odlum
…Out: 19th of May