Fred Julius Shields (born Ferdinand Julius Zbikowski; November 18, 1912 – January 28, 1985) was a U.S.

soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

player who was a member of the U.S. soccer team at the

1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics (German: ''Olympische Sommerspiele 1936''), officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad (German: ''Spiele der XI. Olympiade'') and commonly known as Berlin 1936 or the Nazi Olympics, were an international multi-sp ...

. He played professionally in the American Soccer League and is a member of the

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. Zbikowski was born in Harrison, New Jersey, where he played soccer at Harrison High School. He then attended Panzer College. He played for the Newark Portuguese in the State League, Independent F.C. in the Northern New Jersey League, Prague Football Club and the

Kearny Scots-Americans The Kearny Scots are an American soccer club based in Kearny, New Jersey. The club presently plays in the Eastern Premier Soccer League, which is a United States Adult Soccer Association-affiliated league and an amateur affiliate of the profess ...

of the American Soccer League. He was a member of the U.S. soccer team at the

. He served with the Third Army during World War II. Shields was a physical education instructor at Harrison High School for 40 years; his wife also taught at the school, and his son Ron was HHS principal for 19 years.Staff
"Going out in style with Blue Ribbon"
''The Observer Online'', April 23, 2014. Accessed October 30, 2017. "His dad, Fred Shields, a 1936 soccer Olympian, was a physical education instructor and his mother, Amelia Nowak, was in the business department. Fred taught 40 years at HHS; Amelia, 28 years, after spending a decade at Hillside High. They met while teaching in Harrison." He served as a high school, college and senior amateur referee from 1946 to 1973. He was also a referee of some 1948 National Challenge Cup games. At some point, he changed his name to Fred Shields. He was inducted into the

in 1968 under that name.

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National Soccer Hall of Fame profile
* 1912 births 1985 deaths American men's soccer players Olympic soccer players for the United States Footballers at the 1936 Summer Olympics American Soccer League (1933–1983) players Kearny Scots players National Soccer Hall of Fame members American soccer referees Newark Portuguese players People from Harrison, New Jersey Soccer players from Hudson County, New Jersey Men's association football players not categorized by position Panzer College alumni United States men's international soccer players {{US-footy-bio-stub