Man Afraid of the Soap

Man Afraid of the Soap, whose English name was Freeman Joseph Isaacs, was a Canadian lacrosse player born on 2 October 1869 who died on 19 June 1937. He competed at the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis as a member of the Mohawk Indians lacrosse team, which won the bronze medal in the lacrosse tournament. He came from the Six Nations community near Brantford, Ontario, and was the father of Bill Isaacs, who was inducted into the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame. Olympedia adds that his sons Lance, Wilton and Wade also became lacrosse players in Ontario and Buffalo, and that he sailed the lakes around Ontario from his youth.