25 Facts About Dave Dryburgh

Dave Dryburgh was a Scotland-born Canadian sports journalist.

Dave Dryburgh served as the official statistician for baseball, softball and hockey leagues in Saskatchewan.

Dave Dryburgh was posthumously inducted to the Football Reporters of Canada section at the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1981.

David Dave Dryburgh was born on November 20,1908, in Kirkcaldy, Scotland.

Dave Dryburgh was one of seven brothers to parents George and Jane Dryburgh.

Dave Dryburgh arrived in Regina, Saskatchewan, with his family on July 1,1912, one day after the Regina Cyclone, then went back to Scotland during World War I The family returned to Regina following the war, where Dryburgh completed his education and played soccer as a youth and adult.

Dave Dryburgh was introduced to journalism part-time while reporting on the soccer games in which he played, since The Leader-Post had nobody assigned to cover the sport.

Dave Dryburgh played right midfielder on the Regina City soccer team that played against a touring English team.

Dave Dryburgh had a brief apprenticeship as furniture maker with his father in the mid-1920s, which ended after recovering from pneumonia and changing jobs on advice of his doctor.

Dave Dryburgh became a full-time journalist and sports writer with The Leader-Post in 1928, then became its sports editor in 1932.

Dave Dryburgh frequented the press boxes at the Queen City Gardens, and at Taylor Field for the Regina Roughriders.

Dave Dryburgh often reported on curling, golf, baseball and softball, and travelled Canada extensively to give readers a first-hand account of sporting events.

Regina Roughriders' coach Al Ritchie felt that Dave Dryburgh had "a style all his own", that was he clear and graphic, and that he was fair and honest with athletes and did not sidestep issues.

Saskatchewan's Canadian Olympic Committee member Jack Hamilton said that Dave Dryburgh was, "outspoken and fearless and yet most fair".

Notre Dame Hounds founder Athol Murray stated that, Dave Dryburgh "lived the game he wrote", and that, "many a time his reader could catch the very atmosphere and feel of the fight".

Dave Dryburgh 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.

Dave Dryburgh established the association's registration system which included the history of each player.

Dave Dryburgh served as the official statistician for several leagues including, the Southern Saskatchewan Baseball League, the Intercity Softball League, and the Saskatchewan Senior Hockey League.

Dave Dryburgh was a member of the Regina Curling Club, and a director at the Wascana Country Club.

Dave Dryburgh's mother died in September 1932, after an operation at age 44.

Dave Dryburgh was operating the motor when the boat capsized, and he could not swim.

Edmonton Journal sports editor George Mackintosh wrote that, "Dave Dryburgh was held in high esteem particularly by the newspaper fraternity", and that he was "one of the keenest observers of the sportive scene in the dominion".

Dave Dryburgh was often outspoken in his criticism but could still count as friends most of the other writers and sportsmen with whom he had crossed verbal swords.

Dave Dryburgh worked far beyond the demands of his job in supporting athletic development in Regina and in doing so helped in no small way to build up sport in the entire west.

Dave Dryburgh was posthumously inducted to the Football Reporters of Canada section at the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1981.