Full-Time
The U.S.A 0-1 Canada
Gibson (7)
Att; 2,000
“CANADIANS theVICTORS!”
“THE PICKED AMERICAN FOOT-BALL TEAM BEATEN!!”
“…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…”
Good Grief!
A Lady!
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 - Coming soon…
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 (g-k)
Fraser Malcolm
Brubacher Dowman
Forsyth
Palmer T.Gibson
A.Gibson Lamporte
Thomson
McGurk
Lucas Turner
Jn. Swithenby Young
A. Turner
Js. Swithenby Hood
Holden Lennox
Hughes (gk)
…& so to the…
Gentleman of our Game…
…& it goes, fittingly, the ‘Father of Canadian Football ’…
David Forsyth
…who 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…
One’ll In, One’ll Out - 1885…
