Wilfred Cummings

Manager of the United States team that reached the semifinals of the first World Cup in 1930 and author of a landmark report to the U.S. Football Association on that trip. At the time of that World Cup, Cummings was both treasurer of the USFA, a position he had held since 1923, and manager of the Chicago Bricklayers team that reached the final of the U.S. Open Cup the following year. Was secretary-treasurer of the Illinois State Association for more than 30 years. Inducted in 1953.