Ray Morgan

Eddie Pearson Award - 1981

Born in the Philippines of British parents, Ray grew up in Britain and won the Distinguished Flying Medal while serving in the Royal Air Force. He commenced  refereeing in Hampshire and emigrated to Canada in 1947. Between 1947 and 1967 he refereed nine "A" or full internationals as an official referee for FIFA, the governing body of World Soccer.  In the same period, he handled nine amateur internationals including the game between France and India at Grosseto in the final rounds of the Olympics in Rome in 1962. In 1962, he was the senior linesman in three games in the 1962 World Cup finals in Chile. Ray Held numerous positions while refereeing structure in Canadian soccer and was referee-in-chief of the Expo Soccer Tournament in Montreal in 1967 and at the Pan-American Games in Winnipeg in the same year. In 1968, he retired and was appointed to the FIFA Panel of Lecturers, a position he held until his death in 1977. In 1971 he was given the "FIFA Special Award for Referees", and on May 4, 2002 he was inducted into Canada's Soccer Hall of Fame in Vaughan, Ontario.