Bob Perry (footballer)

Robert Perry (1 November 1892 – 18 June 1960)[2] was a Scottish association football center half who played in Scotland and England before being banned by the Football Association for match fixing. He then moved to the American Soccer League for the rest of his career.[3]

Bob Perry
Personal information
Full name Robert Perry
Date of birth 1 November 1892
Place of birth Airdrie, Scotland
Date of death 18 June 1960(1960-06-18) (aged 67)
Place of death Pawtucket, Rhode Island, United States
Height 5 ft 9+1⁄2 in (1.77 m)[1]
Position(s) Center half
Youth career
King's Park
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1912–1923 Bury 138 (17)
1919 → St Mirren (guest) 4 (1)
1924–1927 J & P Coats 90 (13)
1927 Fall River F.C. 2 (0)
1927 New Bedford Whalers 8 (0)
1927 Hartford Americans 9 (0)
1927–1930 J & P Coats / Pawtucket Rangers 124 (5)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Perry began his apprenticeship with King's Park F.C. In 1912, he moved to Bury F.C. in The Football League. In 1919 he had a short spell back in Scotland with St Mirren.[4] On 29 May 1923, the FA suspended Perry and several others for life for match fixing three years earlier.[5][6]

He moved to the United States and in the fall of 1924, signed with J & P Coats. He played 19 games there at the start of the 1926–27 season before moving to Fall River F.C.; however, he only saw time in two games and ended the season with the New Bedford Whalers. In the summer of 1927, Perry began the season with the Hartford Americans, but by October the league requested the team withdraw from the league.[7] When they did so, Perry returned to J&P Coats (in 1929, new ownership changed the name of the team to the Pawtucket Rangers) where he played until 1930. He remained in the area with his family for the rest of his life, and died in 1960.[2]

References
  1. "The coming of the big ball: the Second Division: Bury". Athletic News. Manchester. 18 August 1913. p. 5 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  2. Robert Perry, Providence Journal, 19 June 1960, via Find A Grave. Retrieved 14 June 2023
  3. Bob Perry, Soccerstats.us
  4. John Litster (October 2012). "A Record of pre-war Scottish League Players". Scottish Football Historian magazine. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  5. Blast From The Remote Past: On This Day 1920: CCFC Survive In What Became ‘The Bury Affair’, Coventry City Former Players' Association, 1 May 2019
  6. Coventry Match-Fixing Scandal Relegates Imps, The Stacey West, 17 November 2017
  7. HARTFORD SOCCER TEAM OUT OF LEAGUE
  • Jose, Colin (1998). American Soccer League, 1921-1931 (Hardback). The Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-3429-4. ().
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