Facts: - death place: seattle , washington , usa - clubs: berlin -lrb- ontario -rrb- rangers accrington ardwick manchester city - caps: 5 40 7 - position: outside right - years: 1887-1889 1899 1892 -- 1893 1893 -- 1896 1896 -- - death date: 07 march 1948 - birth date: 11 august 1870 - fullname: walter wells bowman - name: walter bowman - nationalteam: canada - birth place: waterloo , ontario , canada - goals: 3 3 0 Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of walter bowman .
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walter wells bowman -lrb- born august 11 , 1870 in waterloo , ontario , canada -rrb- was the first non-british player to play in the football league .walter bowman began his soccer career playing for the berlin rangers and was a member of the team that won the championship of the western football -lrb- soccer -rrb- association of ontario in 1887 , 1888 and 1889 .in 1886 he played for canada against the united states in east newark , new jersey , and in 1888 was selected to go on tour to britain with a team made up of players from southern ontario .it was a notable year for the now famous football league was formed in 1888 and the canadians played against teams such as west bromwich albion , aston villa , blackburn rovers and notts county in england , plus glasgow rangers and hearts in scotland this was a highly successful tour and bowman played in 15 of the games at outside right -lrb- right wing -rrb- and three at inside right .when the tour was over he returned to berlin -lrb- now known as kitchener -rrb- and continued to play for the local rangers team .a second british tour was undertaken in 1891 , only this time the team included some players recruited from the american football association of new jersey .it was a much more ambitious tour and the team played 58 games from august 22 , 1891 to january 4 , 1892 .bowman played in an incredible 51 of those games , appearing in all five forward positions , and scored eleven goals .when it was over he remained in england , where he married , and signed for accrington in 1892 scoring three goals in five games .the next season he signed for second division team ardwick , a team known today as manchester city .his sojourn in england over , he returned not to canada but to the united states where he had a brother living in chicago .after remaining there for a while he moved to montana working at first rafting logs down a river , and then at the copper smelter in anaconda .one year he played ice hockey for anaconda .from montana he moved with his family...