William Twaits (August 20, 1879 – April 13, 1941) was a Canadian amateur

soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

player who competed in the

1904 Summer Olympics The 1904 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the III Olympiad and also known as St. Louis 1904) were an international multi-sport event held in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, from 29 August to 3 September 1904, as part of an extended s ...

. Twaits was born in

Galt, Ontario Galt is a community in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada, in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario on the Grand River. Prior to 1973, it was an independent city, incorporated in 1915, but amalgamation with the town of Hespeler, Ontario, the to ...

. In 1904 he was a member of the

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team, which won the gold medal in the soccer tournament. He played all two matches as a forward.

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William Twaits at databaseOlympics.com
1879 births 1941 deaths Canadian men's soccer players Canadian people of British descent Men's association football forwards Footballers at the 1904 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Canada Olympic soccer players for Canada Soccer people from Ontario Sportspeople from Cambridge, Ontario Olympic medalists in football Medalists at the 1904 Summer Olympics {{Canada-Olympic-medalist-stub