Moreover, on hanging up his boots and in 1910 being a lace-worker Gould in 1911 became assistant soccer coach at the University of Pennsylvania, retiring seemingly at sixty-five in 1938, although perhaps with an interlude back in the lace-trade. Still today the university presents each year's best player with the David L. Gould trophy. And he would also officiate. In 1926 he ran a line for the US-Canada international. He was also a well-regarded referee, serving as President of both the Referees Examining Board and the Referees' Association. As a result he was in 1953 rightly inducted into the US Soccer Hall of Fame.        

Yet, whilst David L. Gould's role in US soccer is undoubtedly important, for our purposes it is in part peripheral. More to the point is that he is said to have been born in 1873 and in Galston. In fact his American death-certificate gives his birth-date as 4th January 1871, his father as John Gold and his mother as Mary Lindsay thus in 1891 he was not eighteen but twenty. Furthermore, in early 1891 at 8, Loudoun Rd in Newmilns and Greenholm the census records John Gold, a miner, his second wife, Jane,  five of his children with her and three by his first wife, Mary Lindsay. This latter trio includes sixteen year-old William Gold, born 1874 and a "Truttler", and "factory worker", David L. Gold, aged twenty so born in 1871 and in precisely Galston. In the USA the name might have morphed, the age perhaps been "adjusted", Galston become simply Scotland but there seems little doubt that Willie Gold and David L. Gould, by Scots tradition, David Lindsay Gould , the former a Spanish footballing pioneer and the latter very much his equivalent in the USA, were full brothers.