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David Binnie Turner was born Oct. 11, 1903, in Edinburgh, Scotland, but in 1914 emigrated to Edmonton with his family. He played as a teenager for Edmonton’s South Side club, then moved to Vancouver.

After winning a provincial title with Cumberland in 1923, he played briefly again with St. Andrew’s, but then in Toronto, Philadelphia and New Bedford. In 1927, he joined Canada’s New Zealand tour — he scored the winning goal in his first international — which remains the most successful in Canadian sporting history. Canada had 22 wins, two losses and a draw. It won its test series with the New Zealand national side, too. Canada scored 116 goals (43 in the first seven games) and allowed 16.

After the tour, Turner planned to attend the University of Alberta, but waiting on the pier when the ship docked was Vancouver Mayor Fred Hume. He signed Turner to his Westminster Royals in exchange for tuition at the University of B.C. The Royals won four national titles in eight years between 1928 and 1936.

Turner retired from soccer in 1936, the same year he graduated from UBC. He earned an M.A. from UBC and a PhD from Cornell. In 1947, he joined the B.C. government as director of conservation and became deputy minister. He died in Victoria in 1989. He is a member of the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame, the Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame and twice a member of the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame, both as an individual inducted in 1966, and as a member of the legendary Royals side inducted in 1979.