David Danskin

David Danskin ( born January 9, 1863 in Burntisland, Fife, Scotland; † August 4, 1948 in Warwick, Warwickshire, England) was a Scottish mechanical engineer and footballer. He was one of the founding fathers of the " Dial Square Football Club ", which is known as Arsenal today.

Danskin grew up in Scotland Kirkcaldy, before he moved to the mid- 1880s to London to find work. He hired the Dial Square workshop of the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich armaments factory and met a number of football enthusiasts, including Jack Humble and Fred Beardsley and Morris Bates, two former players from Nottingham Forest. Danskin is generally - together with Humble - regarded as the driving force behind the formation of the football team from the working class as Dial Square Football Club. He acted as an organizer from now, bought for the club the first ball and led the team in the first game against Eastern Wanderers on 11 December 1886, the Dial Square 6-0, won as team captain.

He was to continue for Royal Arsenal, how called, the club later in the next three years used regularly. Afterwards, however, he acted less and less until it finally ceased in 1893 with the football games. When the club to a professional association was to joined the Football League and commercial ventures came in, Danskin broke its connection to the club completely.

Danskin later opened his own company in Plumstead in bicycle, before he moved to Coventry in 1907, to work for standard motor. In his later life he had to contend with health problems that were probably also due to the injuries suffered during his football time, and went early to the board. Nevertheless, he was still one of the few founding members, who witnessed the first phase of its former dominance Association in the 1930s. According to reports, he delighted in his hospital bed in 1936 in the FA Cup victory he was following on the radio. After a long illness Danskin died in 1948 at the age of 85 years in a hospice in Warwick.