Ray Telford

Ray Telford... he was 18 years old when he moved from England to Nanaimo, BC in June 1965... in 1976, he worked as a “Vancouver millworker” when he selected to play for Canada at the Olympic Games...

represented Canada at the Montréal 1976 Olympic Games... represented Canada in Olympic Qualifiers and two editions of the Pan American Games... career 23 international appearances across six years from 1971 to 1976 with Canada Soccer’s Men’s National Team... when he left international football in 1976, he ranked third all-time with 23 international appearances...

wrote Frank Pike in 1971, Telford “has the capacity to take very hard knocks and recover to play even better”...