Frank Dixon (lacrosse)

Francis Joseph Dixon, known as Frank Dixon and nicknamed Tony, was a Canadian lacrosse player who won an Olympic gold medal with Canada at the 1908 Summer Olympics. He was born on 1 April 1878 in Port Dalhousie, Ontario, and played for teams in Hamilton, Ontario and Buffalo, New York before joining the St. Catharines Athletics. That earlier club play nearly cost him his place on the Canadian team, because it put his amateur status in doubt, but after he signed an affidavit he was allowed to travel to London. Canada beat Great Britain 14 to 10 in its only match, and Dixon received a gold medal. He stayed active in lacrosse for many years and died on 29 November 1932 in Grantham, St. Catharines, killed instantly in a traffic accident when a car overturned on him.