Lawrence Carmen Surock (November 9, 1930 – September 26, 2007) was an American soccer player who was a member of the United States 1952 Olympic Soccer Team. Surock graduated from Patterson High School where he was a four-time All Metro soccer player. In 1949, he was a member of the

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baseball farm team in 1949. Surock attended the University of Baltimore where he was a 1952 All American. That year, he was called into the

U.S. Olympic team United States of America (USA) has sent athletes to every celebration of the modern era Olympic Games, except for the 1980 Summer Olympics, during which it led a boycott to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. American athletes have w ...

for the

1952 Helsinki Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1952), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad ( fi, XV olympiadin kisat; sv, Den XV olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952 ( sv, Helsin ...

. In 1954, Surock turned professional with the

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of the American Soccer League. He continued to attend night school to complete his degree and also served in the Korean War. In 1957, the Rockets were renamed Baltimore Pompeii. In 1958, Pompeii lost in overtime to the

Los Angeles Kickers The Los Angeles Kickers were an amateur American soccer team established in 1951. The club won the National Challenge Cup, now known as the U.S. Open Cup, in 1958 and 1964. In 1951, Albert Ebert and Fritz Ermert founded the Los Angeles Kickers as ...

in the championship game of the

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. In 1960, Pompeii withdrew from the ASL and continued as an amateur club. In 1991, Surock was inducted into the Maryland Soccer Hall of Fame. In 2004, he was made a member of the University of Baltimore Athletic Hall of Fame.

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FIFA: Lawrence Surock
American men's soccer players American Soccer League (1933–1983) players Baltimore Pompei players Olympic soccer players for the United States Footballers at the 1952 Summer Olympics Soccer players from Baltimore 1930 births 2007 deaths Men's association football forwards United States men's international soccer players University of Baltimore alumni College men's soccer players in the United States {{US-footy-forward-stub