Robert McIntyre (15 May 1904 – 18 February 1998) was a Scottish-American
soccer
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center forward
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who spent two years in the
American Soccer League, leading the league in scoring during the spring 1931 season.
Born in
Cambuslang
Cambuslang ( sco, Cammuslang, from gd, Camas Lang) is a town on the south-eastern outskirts of Greater Glasgow, Scotland. With approximately 30,000 residents, it is the 27th largest town in Scotland by population, although, never having had a ...
, Scotland, McIntyre began playing soccer with
Renfrew Juniors. In 1923, he moved to the United States, settling in
Boston
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. When he arrived, he joined the amateur Lusitania Recreation club. In 1930, he signed with the professional
Pawtucket Rangers
J. & P. Coats was an American soccer club founded in 1900 as the team of the Pawtucket, Rhode Island branch of the J. & P. Coats threadmaking company of Paisley, Scotland (following a 1952 merger this firm became part of the Coats Group).
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of the
American Soccer League. He had an immediate impact, scoring twenty-three goals in thirty-one games in the fall 1930 season. That was good enough to take second in the league scoring table. In the spring of 1931, he played only eighteen games, but again scored twenty-three goals, taking the league scoring title. That fall, he added another fifteen goals in sixteen games.
In 1939, a Bob McIntyre is listed as playing in the
second American Soccer League, but this may be a different man as there were three Bob McIntyres playing during the last few seasons in the first ASL.
References
1904 births
1998 deaths
Scottish men's footballers
American Soccer League (1921–1933) players
Pawtucket Rangers players
Footballers from Cambuslang
Scottish expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States
Men's association football forwards
Scottish expatriate sportspeople in the United States
Scottish emigrants to the United States
Renfrew F.C. players
Scottish Junior Football Association players
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