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Dave Dryburgh (November 20, 1908 – July 11, 1948) was a Scotland-born Canadian sports journalist. A native of Kirkcaldy and an immigrant to Regina, he reported on the soccer games in which he played for The Leader-Post. As the newspaper's sports editor from 1932 to 1948, he primarily covered Canadian football and the Regina Roughriders, and ice hockey in Western Canada. His columns "Sport Byways" and "Dryburgh" give a first-hand account of sporting events, and were read widely in Western Canada. As the secretary of the Saskatchewan Amateur Hockey Association during the 1930s and 1940s, he established its registration system including the history of each player. He also served as the official statistician for baseball, softball and hockey leagues in Saskatchewan.

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  • Dave Dryburgh (November 20, 1908 – July 11, 1948) was a Scotland-born Canadian sports journalist. A native of Kirkcaldy and an immigrant to Regina, he reported on the soccer games in which he played for The Leader-Post. As the newspaper's sports editor from 1932 to 1948, he primarily covered Canadian football and the Regina Roughriders, and ice hockey in Western Canada. His columns "Sport Byways" and "Dryburgh" give a first-hand account of sporting events, and were read widely in Western Canada. As the secretary of the Saskatchewan Amateur Hockey Association during the 1930s and 1940s, he established its registration system including the history of each player. He also served as the official statistician for baseball, softball and hockey leagues in Saskatchewan. After Dryburgh drowned in a boating accident at age 39, sportswriters in Western Canada established the Dave Dryburgh Memorial Trophy for the top scorer in the Western Interprovincial Football Union. Other trophies named for him include the Dryburgh Memorial Trophy in the Western Canada Senior Hockey League, and the Dryburgh Memorial Trophy in the Southern Saskatchewan Baseball League. He was posthumously inducted to the Football Reporters of Canada section at the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1981. (en)
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  • 1948-07-11 (xsd:date)
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  • 1948-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
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  • Black and white photo of a middle-aged man wearing a bowler hat, tweed overcoat, white dress shirt, and a checkered necktie (en)
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  • 1908-11-20 (xsd:date)
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  • Kirkcaldy, Scotland, UK (en)
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  • 1948-07-11 (xsd:date)
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  • Echo Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada (en)
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  • The Leader-Post (en)
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  • Dave Dryburgh (en)
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  • Sports journalist (en)
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  • The Globe and Mail (en)
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  • "Dave Dryburgh was one of the best young newspaper men in Canada. The neat sports page which he produced in his paper was worthy of a city 10 times the size of Regina. In his own column, there were times when he assumed the role of a professional "sour-puss" but this journalistic pose was strongly at variance with his natural disposition. He knew his audience and, deliberately, he would provoke inter-city controversies between his own bailiwick and the adjacent Manitoba capital of Winnipeg but, in such cases, he wrote with his tongue tucked firmly in his cheek." (en)
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  • Dave Dryburgh (November 20, 1908 – July 11, 1948) was a Scotland-born Canadian sports journalist. A native of Kirkcaldy and an immigrant to Regina, he reported on the soccer games in which he played for The Leader-Post. As the newspaper's sports editor from 1932 to 1948, he primarily covered Canadian football and the Regina Roughriders, and ice hockey in Western Canada. His columns "Sport Byways" and "Dryburgh" give a first-hand account of sporting events, and were read widely in Western Canada. As the secretary of the Saskatchewan Amateur Hockey Association during the 1930s and 1940s, he established its registration system including the history of each player. He also served as the official statistician for baseball, softball and hockey leagues in Saskatchewan. (en)
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