Thomas Taylor (soccer player)
| Thomas Taylor | ||
 Taylor (bottom left) with Galt FC (1904)
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| Personnel | ||
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| Surname | Thomas Sylvester Taylor | |
| birthday | 4th December 1880 | |
| place of birth | Galt , Canada | |
| date of death | August 15, 1945 | |
| Place of death | Winnipeg , Canada | |
| position | Right winger | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1901-1904 | Galt FC | |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Thomas Sylvester "Tom" Taylor (born December 4, 1880 in Galt , ON ; † August 15, 1945 in Winnipeg , MB ) was a Canadian soccer player and Olympic champion .
Career
Taylor belonged to the football club Galt FC, founded in 1881 (or 1882) from the city of the same name, today's district of Cambridge in the province of Ontario , from 1901 to 1904.
With the club, which has joined the Western Football Association founded in Berlin in 1880 and has been a member of the Ontario Football Association League since 1901 , he won the Ontario Cup three times in a row .
He took part with Galt FC , representing the Western Football Association and Canada , in the Olympic soccer tournament , which was held from November 16 to 23, 1904 in St. Louis on Francis Field . Since only three teams had registered for the tournament - the tournament was met with little interest in Europe - Galt FC competed with two college teams from St. Louis. The first game against Christian Brothers' College was won 7-0, in which Taylor contributed one goal, the second game against the St. Rose School of St. Louis 4-0, in which Taylor scored two goals. Since the meeting of the two college teams ended goalless on November 20, 1904, Taylor won the gold medal with his team .
successes
- Olympic champion 1904
- Ontario Cup winners 1901, 1902, 1903
Others
From 1917 to 1936, Taylor was the assistant manager of the AR Williams Machine Company .
Web links
- Thomas Taylor on canadiansoccerhistory.com
- Thomas Taylor in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Championships ( Memento of the original from March 22, 2016 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on ontariosoccer.net
- ↑ fixtures on rsssf .com
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Taylor, Thomas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Taylor, Thomas Sylvester (full name); Taylor, Tom (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian soccer player and Olympic champion |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th December 1880 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Galt , ON |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 15, 1945 |
| Place of death | Winnipeg , MB |