Peter Laurence "Larry" Fitzpatrick was a Canadian soccer player that played in

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Career

Fitzpatrick won back-to-back Dominion of Canada Football Championships with Verdun Park FC and Montreal Aldred in 1934 and 1935. He also played three years in the first American Soccer League. He played 81 league games for the

Providence Gold Bugs The Providence Clamdiggers was a member of the American Soccer League. They were renamed the Providence Gold Bugs before the spring half of the 1928–1929 season. The club won the American Soccer Association Cup in 1929. After the fall 1930 s ...

in 1928 and 1929. He began the 1929–1930 season in Providence, but transferred to the

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 Paisley ( ; sco, Paisley, gd, Pàislig ) is a large town situated in ...

after only sixteen games. On May 18, 1929, he scored one of the two Gold Bugs’ goals in a 2–2 tie with the New York Nationals in the 1929 American Cup. The Gold Bugs went on to win the cup with a 4-2 replay victory. He also played for Montreal Blue Bonnets and Montreal CPR Glen Yards in Canada. In 2017, as part of the "Legends Class" he was elected to the

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as a player.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fitzpatrick, Pete American Soccer League (1921–1933) players Pawtucket Rangers players Providence Gold Bug players 1946 deaths Men's association football forwards Canadian men's soccer players Year of birth missing