George Graham

Born: Portrush, Northern Ireland, in 1902.  

Died: Toronto, Ontario, August 7, 1966. 

Outstanding centre forward with the great Toronto Ulster United teams of the 1920s and 1930s, who won Ontario Cup medals with Ulster in 1929, 1937 and 1938.  He also played for the Ontario All-Star team against the English Football Association in 1926, the Scottish Football Association in 1927, the Welsh Football Association in 1929 and the English Football Association again in 1931 and for Eastern Canada against the Scottish Football Association in 1935.  He also played for Canada against the United States at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn in 1926.  Graham was brought to Canada by his parents in 1914, and grew up in Edmonton, where he played for the South Side team along with his great friend Dave Turner.  He played for the Edmonton All-Stars against the touring Corinthians in 1924 along with Turner and his brother Jim. 

Afterwards, he moved to the west coast with Turner, but before that, played one game in Calgary for the C.P.R. team helping them win the Black Cup.  On the west coast, he played for Vancouver St. Andrews, then crossed to Georgia Strait to play in Cumberland on Vancouver Island, but it wasn’t long before he was lured to the American Professional Soccer League, where he played for Philadelphia, Fall River Marksmen and Brooklyn Wanderers.  With Philadelphia later in the 1925–26 season, he scored eight goals in 10 games, then 17 goals in 30 games for Fall River in the 1927–28 season, before being traded to Brooklyn.  After that, he remained in Canada with Ulster United, and worked for the T. Eaton Company for 38 years.