Dan McNeil
Dan
McNeil

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Ayr, SCO
Where they grew up
Ayr , Scotland

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Dan McNeil

Dan McNeil... he moved to Canada in 1903...

served as the sixth President of the Dominion of Canada Football Association (1920-22)...

was considered the “father of soccer in Winnipeg”... wrote Bill Anderson for the Winnipeg Tribune in 1939, “many friends remember how hard he worked for the game and how he was always ready with a word of advice or a cheery greeting. We seldom have seen him without a smile on his face and deep in a soccer argument”...

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served as the sixth President of Canada Soccer (1920-21 and 1921-22), then known as the Dominion of Canada Football Association... served as a Canada Soccer Council Member (1915-19 for Manitoba) and a Canada Soccer Vice-President (1919-20)...

helped form Winnipeg Scottish club... helped amalgamate Civic-Wanderes club in Winnipeg (that later became Norwood Wanderers)... was manager of Winnipeg Scottish when the team won the Connaught Cup at the Dominion of Canada championship in Toronto, ON...

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