Nov. 8, 1925 – U.S. 6:1 Canada at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn (Att.: 8,000)

Davey Brown opened the scoring with the first of his two goals, the U.S. breaking the game open with five second-half goals. Gordon Burness, who played for the U.S. in 1926, equalized off a header from Ed McLaine off a corner kick by former Blackburn Rovers and Queen’s Park Rangers winger Roy Faulkner. Archie Stark, who scored 67 goals for Bethlehem Steel in the 1924-25 ASL season and later toured with Fall River, broke the deadlock with the first of his four goals, off a Billy Herd pass.

Burness, born in Montrose, Scotland,  joined the Boston Wonder Workers in 1927 and won the 1931 National Challenge Cup (U.S. Open Cup) with the Fall River Marksmen. Burness and younger brother Harry performed together on the Wonder Workers and continued to compete in the Boston area for several years. Harry Burness was killed in action serving in the U.S. Army in France in 1944.

The U.S. lineup included Wonder Workers goalkeeper Tommy Steel; former J&P Coats defender Jock Ferguson; New Bedford Whalers’ fullback Billy Wilson and inside forward Jack McGuire; former J&P Coats and Fall River Marksmen inside forward Bob Millar; and wing forward Malcolm Goldie, who later played for Fall River and coached MIT. Canada’s lineup included New Bedford wing half Fred Dierden and Providence center forward Ed McLaine.

NOTE: The Brooklyn Robins concluded season against Boston Braves before a 500 crowd at Ebbets Field on Oct. 3, 1925

Nov. 6, 1926 – U.S. 6:2 Canada at Ebbets Field

Goals by Faulkner and George Graham gave the Canadians a 2-1 halftime lead. Andy Auld scored twice and his Providence teammate, Tommy Florie (who would captain the U.S. in the 1930 and ’34 World Cups), once. Brown added two goals and Jock Marshall one.

Fall River’s Findlay Kerr was in goal for the U.S., 21-year-old Joe Kennaway (later to star for Providence and Fall River) for Canada. The U.S. lineup also included former Shawsheen Indians center forward Eddie Smith and the Whalers’ Wilson. Canada’s lineup included Boston inside forward Jimmy Galloway. Graham would score 17 goals for Fall River in the 1927-28 season.

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