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Challenge Trophy competition

18 August 1953

The Soccer Hall of Fame Archives / The British Columbian

 

His Worship Mayor F.H. "Toby" Jackson congratulates Roy "Buster" Cairns on the fifth championship win of the Dominion Cup by Westminster Royals soccer team. The trophy, worth $5500, was presented to Cairns in Montreal by President E.O.D. Campbell of the Football Association of Canada after Royals had beaten Vancouver City 5-3, Edmonton 5-0 and 10-0, Winnipeg Scottish 1-1, 0-0 and 5-1, and Montreal Hakoah 0-0, 2-0 and 1-1.

 

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