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Sports => Quizz Time & Facts => Topic started by: Sando on May 21, 2009, 10:42:55 AM

Title: First white player to play for T&T.
Post by: Sando on May 21, 2009, 10:42:55 AM

Don't know if this question was asked before, but if not, here goes.

Who was the first white player to play for T&T football team.

Title: Re: First white player to play for T&T.
Post by: vb on May 21, 2009, 05:26:03 PM

You should reverse that question and ask who was the first black player to play for TT??

The early TT teams were all white.
VB

Title: Re: First white player to play for T&T.
Post by: E-man on May 21, 2009, 07:52:36 PM

(http://www.ttfootballhistory.com/files/images/1908-trinidadteam.jpg)

Title: Re: First white player to play for T&T.
Post by: Pointman on October 29, 2009, 03:31:32 PM

Quote from: E-man on May 21, 2009, 07:52:36 PM

(http://www.ttfootballhistory.com/files/images/1908-trinidadteam.jpg)

ah sure we was dominating the caribbean then too. :beermug:

Title: Re: First white player to play for T&T.
Post by: E-man on October 29, 2009, 03:52:11 PM

Looking through old papers recently I've found some of the first names on this team, and what clubs they were from.

G. D. Owen (Casuals)
Don Anderson (Casuals)
J. B. Todd (Clydesdale)
Frank Brierly (Casuals)
E. M. Legge (Shamrock)

Thomas Boyd (founder and 1st president, TAFA)
A. McCracken (Casuals)
R. A. Torrance (?, South?, he refereed down South)
John H. Hoadley (Clydesdale)
Alec Russell

Willie Eccles (Casuals)
H. G. Bullock (Clydesdale)
Alex Gordon (Clydesdale)
John R. Rochford (Casuals)
G. Brierly (Casuals)