Brooklin Football Club

Publication: The Globe and Mail (Toronto), 17 February 1894

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W.E. O'Brien, Photographer

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Black and white negative of a team photograph of the Brooklin Football Club of 1893. The team is posing with some of their trophies. This photograph appeared, along with the story about the team, in the 17 February 1894 edition of the Saturday Globe.
Back row (left to right): E. Jones (half back), A. Holliday (half back), J. Burnett (striker), F. Holliday (half back), C. Morrison (keeper).
Middle row: H. Hogarth, T. Marshall (striker), G.W. Holliday (manager), G. Gill (striker), W. Burnett (defense).
Front row: F. Hallett (striker), Edward J. Holliday (Captain, striker), A. Curtis (defense).

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The Brooklin Football Club won many trophies and were champions of the Ontario County League for 1893 with a record of seven victories and two draws. The league consisted of teams from Oshawa, Manchester, Port Perry, Uxbridge, and Brooklin.

John Dryden, Ontario Minister of Agriculture, was the Honorary President of the Booklin Football Club.

The captain, Edward J. Holliday, was the winner of the Langevin Cup for the quarter-mile run at the Whitby Collegiate Institute in 1893.

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