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Jack Coulter
Personal information
Full name John Smith Coulter
Date of birth (1902-01-23)23 January 1902
Place of birth Hamilton, Scotland
Date of death 15 November 1960(1960-11-15) (aged 58)
Position(s) Forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1922-1924 Garrison 13+ (17+)
1924-1926 Victoria United Services 11+ (33+)
1926-1927 Esquimalt 12+ (22+)
1927-1936 Westminster Royals 108+ (190+)
Total 141+ (262+)
International career
Canada
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Jack “Casey” Coulter or Jock Coulter was the main goal scorer within the great Westminster Royals side, winning three national titles between 1928 and 1936, scoring in eight of the nine final games he played.

Club career[edit]

Jock Coulter started his footballing career within the ranks of Garrison, who participated in the Victoria Wednesday League. In an unfinished total, Jock scored 21 goals in 16 official games for Garrison, but was swiftly signed by Victoria United Services. Coulter continued his prolific goalscoring feats for Services and in two years scored 47 goals in 17 official games. [1][2]

Westminster Royals[edit]

Jock Coulter moved to New Westminster in the summer of 1927, he took up a job in the New West Fire Department and on weekends, he would consistently play for the Westminster Royals. In his first season for Westminster Royals, Jock scored 50 official goals across all competitions, in 31 games. The 1927-28 Westminster Royals side were an immense team that became a legendary figure in Canadian soccer history and is regarded as one of the strongest ever to grace a Canadian pitch. Among the many championships the Royals won included the 1928 Vancouver and District First Division league championship, Teacher's Shield, Mainland Cup, Vancouver Exhibition Cup, Province Cup, and OB Allan Cup.[3][4]

The Royals side would continue their incredible form into the succeeding season as well as Jock Coulter. He totalled 52 goals in 29 games at an average of 1.79 per game. The strong Westminster Royals side commanded the British Columbia. scene in 1928–29 as they did in 1927–28, winning all the major trophies except the main one, the national championship. This season they were surprisingly beaten by Vancouver St. Saviours in the B.C. semi-final by a score of 3–1. The Royals appealed on a technicality. A second semi-final game was played. This time the score was 5–3, again in favour of St. Saviours.[5]

Again, Westminster Royals made their way to the national championship in 1930 and despite losing 5–2 over the course of three games against Montréal CNR they managed to win the championship. This was due to Montréal CNR losing the first game 1–0, then won 5-0 and in the third game the Royals again won 1–0.[6]

Until 1936, Jock Coulter and Westminster Royals went into hiding as they did not win anything major until then. In the national championship they triumphed over United Weston from Winnipeg 6–1 in the first game, but lost the second match 2–1, before going on to win the trophy in the third game 3–0.[7]

International career[edit]

Despite not representing Canada, Coulter did represent Victoria against various club selects and more famously against the English FA side that toured Canada in 1926, where he scored the lone goal in a 5–1 loss.[8]

Career statistics[edit]

Appearances and goals by club, season, and competition. Only official games are included in this table.[9][10][11][12][13][14]
Club Season League National Championship Regional Cup Allan Cup Others Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Garrison 1922/1923 8+ 5+ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8+ 5+
1923/1924 5+ 12+ 0 0 0 0 0 0 2+ 2+ 7+ 14+
Victoria United Services 1924/1925 11+ 25+ 0 0 2+ 1+ 0 0 3+ 6+ 16+ 32+
1925/1926 6+ 17+ 0 0 1+ 1+ 0 0 4+ 14+ 11+ 32+
Garrison 1926 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1+ 2+ 1+ 2+
Esquimalt 1926/1927 12+ 22+ 0 0 1+ 1+ 0 0 1+ 3+ 14+ 26+
Westminster Royals 1927/1928 14 18 10 20 1 1 2 5 4 6 31 50
1928/1929 19 31 1 0 3 6 3 7 3 8 29 52
1929/1930 9+ 14+ 7+ 13+ 3+ 9+ 1+ 1+ 2+ 1+ 21+ 38+
1930/1931 10+ 16+ 4+ 10+ 3+ 6+ 1+ 1+ 0 0 18+ 33+
1931/1932 16+ 26 2+ 8+ 2+ 4+ 0 0 2+ 5+ 22+ 43+
1932/1933 8+ 12+ 0 0 0 0 0 0 1+ 0 9+ 12+
1933/1934 0 0 1+ 2+ 0 0 0 0 0 0 1+ 2+
1934/1935 0 0 1+ 1+ 0 0 0 0 0 0 1+ 1+
1935/1936 1+ 1+ 7+ 20+ 1+ 3+ 0 0 0 0 9+ 24+
1936/1937 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total 119+ 199+ 33+ 74+ 17+ 32+ 7+ 14+ 23+ 47+ 199+ 366+

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Victoria "Rep" Soccer Team In Pink For Match With Royals" Times Colonist, 28 October 1931, p.8
  2. ^ "Jock Coulter". BC Soccer Hall of Fame & Heritage Archive.
  3. ^ "Canadian Soccer History-BC-WM Royals 1927".
  4. ^ "1927-28 New Westminster Royals".
  5. ^ "Canadian Soccer History-BC-WM Royals 1928".
  6. ^ "New Westminster Royals Capture Soccer Championship of Dominion". Edmonton Journal. 4 August 1930. Retrieved 10 June 2011.
  7. ^ Himie Koshevoy. "Coulter Scores Four" The Vancouver News-Herald, 10 August 1936, p.5
  8. ^ "Canadian Soccer History-Eng FA tour 1926".
  9. ^ The Vancouver News-Herald
  10. ^ The Province
  11. ^ The Vancouver Sun
  12. ^ The Victoria Daily Times
  13. ^ "Coulter Leads Pacific Coast Loop Scorer" The Province, 5 June 1932, p.23
  14. ^ https://docs.ufpr.br/~mmsabino/sstatistics//jock_coulter.html
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