Walter Dick (September 20, 1905, in

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, Scotland – July 24, 1989, in Lafayette, California) was a U.S.

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who was a member of the U.S. national team at the

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. He is a member of the U.S.

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Professional career

Dick began his professional career with

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in the

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. In 1923, at the age of seventeen, he moved to the United States, settling in

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. When he arrived, he immediately began playing with the Niagara Falls Rangers. The manager of

Providence F.C. 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 ...

of the American Soccer League spotted Dick playing for Rangers and offered him a contract. Dick went on to play six seasons with Providence between 1924 and 1930. However, in 1928, the team changed its name to the

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. By 1930, the ravages of the

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and the "Soccer Wars" had begun to take their toll on the ASL and teams began to fold, move and merge. In 1930, a group of businessmen led by

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bought the team, and moved the team to Fall River, Massachusetts, where it spent most of the 1930-1931 ASL season as Fall River F.C. When Fall River merged with the New Bedford Whalers during the spring of 1931, Dick moved 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 (following a 1952 merger this firm became part of the Coats Group). The club ...

. The Rangers left the ASL in the fall of 1932 as the league began to collapse, but joined the newly formed second American Soccer League in the fall of 1933. In 1934 and 1935, the Rangers went to the

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, only to fall to Stix, Baer and Fuller F.C. in 1934 and the same team, only renamed St. Louis Central Breweries F.C. in 1935.
/sup> In 1937, he joined the Kearny Scots-Americans and remained with the team through the 1941 season. During that span, Kearny won five league championships.

National team

In 1934, Dick earned one cap with the U.S. national team at the

. In that game, the U.S. lost to

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in the first round of the cup.
/sup> Dick was inducted into the New England Soccer Hall of Fame in 1985
/sup> and the

in 1989.

External links

National Soccer Hall of Fame profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dick, Walter 1905 births 1989 deaths American men's soccer players Armadale F.C. players United States men's international soccer players 1934 FIFA World Cup players American Soccer League (1921–1933) players Providence F.C. players Providence Gold Bug players Fall River F.C. (1932) players Pawtucket Rangers players British emigrants to the United States American Soccer League (1933–1983) players Kearny Scots players National Soccer Hall of Fame members Sportspeople from Kirkintilloch Footballers from East Dunbartonshire Niagara Falls Rangers players Men's association football forwards Scottish men's footballers

Professional career

National team

See also

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