Soccer in the Post War Years -- Toronto's Two-Footed Tackle on Football's 'Displaced Persons'

Part Three of A More Splendid Life's Month-Long series on the History of Soccer in Toronto. In typical Canadian fashion, the Globe and Mail referred to the preposterous on-field punch-ups and numerous pitch-invasions over the course of the troubling 1951 season as 'rhubarbs.' In fact, Toronto's top flight, the National Soccer League Western Division, in addition to its more local and ethnically

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