David Danskin was a Scottish mechanical engineer and footballer.
11 Facts About David Danskin
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David Danskin was a principal founding member of Dial Square FC, later renamed Royal Arsenal, the team that are today known as Arsenal.
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David Danskin played as an amateur for Kirkcaldy Wanderers, and among their players were Jack McBean and Peter Connolly, two players who would later join Danskin at Royal Arsenal.
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In 1885 Danskin moved to London to find work, and took a job at the Dial Square workshop at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich.
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Together with Humble, David Danskin is generally credited as the driving force behind the formation of a works football team, Dial Square FC.
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David Danskin continued to play for Royal Arsenal, as the club were soon renamed afterwards, for the next two years.
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However, after an injury incurred in a match against Clapton in January 1889, David Danskin elected to step down from the side and only played a few more rare occasions after that.
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Arsenal turned professional in 1891, and although David Danskin stood for election to the club's committee in 1892, he did not succeed in getting elected.
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David Danskin ended his official association with Arsenal and later became associated with a new works team from the area, Royal Ordnance Factories, which folded in circa 1896.
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David Danskin was still fond enough of Arsenal to attend their games, and his son Billy used to sell programmes at their Manor Ground as a child.
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David Danskin later started up his own bicycle manufacturing business in Plumstead, before moving to Coventry in 1907 to work for the Standard Motor Company.