John Gordon Burness... soccer family (brother Harry)... he moved from Montrose, SCO to Toronto, ON, CAN in August 1924... worked for Bank of Nova Scotia... worked as a traffic controller for Exxon Oil Company... he was 82 years old when he passed away in Needham, MA, USA...

with Fall River Marksmen, a USFA National Challenge Trophy winner (Dewar Challenge Trophy in 1931)...

said Burness in 1982, “I will have to admit that it was somewhat unusual to play for different opposing teams in the same international game in consecutive seasons. It would probably qualify for ‘Ripley’s Believe it or not’ column”...

For Country

was part of the 1925 Canadian XI that faced USA in an away Men’s International Friendly match in Brooklyn, NY (a 1:6 loss on 8 November 1925)...