Bob Perry (footballer)
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 1893 | ||
| Place of birth | Airdrie, Scotland | ||
| Position(s) | Center half | ||
| Youth career | |||
| King's Park | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1912–1923 | Bury | 138 | (17) |
| 1924–1927 | J & P Coats | 90 | (13) |
| 1927 | Fall River Marksmen | 2 | (0) |
| 1927 | New Bedford Whalers | 8 | (0) |
| 1927 | Hartford Americans | 9 | (0) |
| 1927–1929 | J & P Coats | 81 | (4) |
| 1929–1930 | Pawtucket Rangers | 43 | (1) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only | |||
Bob Perry was a Scottish association football center half who played in Scotland and England before being banned by the Football Association for match fixing. He then moved to the American Soccer League for the rest of his career.
Perry began his apprenticeship with King's Park F.C. In 1912, he moved to Bury F.C. in The Football League. On 29 May 1923, the FA suspended Perry and several others for life for match fixing three years earlier.[1][2] He moved to the United States and in the fall of 1924, signed with J & P Coats. In 1926, he began the season with J&P Coats, playing nineteen games, before moving to the Fall River Marksmen. He only saw time in two games before ending the season with the New Bedford Whalers. In 1927, Perry began the season with the Hartford Americans. In October, the league requested the team withdraw from the league.[3] When they did so, Perry returned to J&P Coats where he played until 1930. In 1929, new ownership changed the name of the team to the Pawtucket Rangers.
External links[]
- Jose, Colin (1998). American Soccer League, 1921-1931 (Hardback). The Scarecrow Press. (ISBN 0-8108-3429-4).
References[]
- ^ Blast From The Remote Past: On This Day 1920: CCFC Survive In What Became ‘The Bury Affair’, Coventry City Former Players' Association, 1 May 2019
- ^ Coventry Match-Fixing Scandal Relegates Imps, The Stacey West, 17 November 2017
- ^ HARTFORD SOCCER TEAM OUT OF LEAGUE
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- 1893 births
- Sportspeople from Airdrie, North Lanarkshire
- Scottish footballers
- Association football central defenders
- Bury F.C. players
- J&P Coats players
- Fall River Marksmen players
- New Bedford Whalers players
- Hartford Americans players
- Pawtucket Rangers players
- English Football League players
- American Soccer League (1921–1933) players
- Scottish expatriate footballers
- Scottish expatriate sportspeople in the United States
- Expatriate soccer players in the United States
- Scottish football defender, 1890s birth stubs