Walter Dick Explained

Walter Dick
Birth Date:20 September 1905
Birth Place:Kirkintilloch, Scotland
Death Place:Lafayette, California, U.S.
Position:Inside Forward
Years1:1922–1923
Years2:1923–1924
Years3:1924–1928
Years4:1928–1931
Years5:1931–1937
Years6:1937–
Clubs1:Armadale
Clubs2:Niagara Falls Rangers
Clubs3:Providence F.C.
Clubs4:Providence Gold Bugs
Clubs5:Fall River
Clubs6:Pawtucket Rangers
Clubs7:Kearny Scots-Americans
Caps3:77
Caps4:72
Caps5:14
Caps6:20
Goals3:10
Goals4:11
Goals5:0
Goals6:1
Nationalyears1:1934
Nationalteam1:United States
Nationalcaps1:1
Nationalgoals1:0

Walter Dick (September 20, 1905 – July 24, 1989) was a U.S. soccer forward who was a member of the U.S. national team at the 1934 FIFA World Cup. He is a member of the U.S. National Soccer Hall of Fame.

Professional career

Dick began his professional career with Armadale F.C. in the Scottish Football League. In 1923, at the age of seventeen, he moved to the United States, settling in Niagara Falls, New York. When he arrived, he immediately began playing with the Niagara Falls Rangers. The manager of Providence F.C. 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 Providence Gold Bugs. By 1930, the ravages of the Great Depression 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 Harold Brittan bought the team, and moved the team to Fall River, Massachusetts, where it spent most of the 1930–1931 ASL season as Fall River When Fall River merged with the New Bedford Whalers during the spring of 1931, Dick moved to the Pawtucket Rangers. 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 National Challenge Cup, 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.https://www.rsssf.org/tablesu/usacuphist.html 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 1934 FIFA World Cup. In that game, the U.S. lost to Italy in the first round of the cup.https://www.rsssf.org/tablesu/usa-intres-det69.html

Dick was inducted into the New England Soccer Hall of Fame in 1985http://neshof.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/inductees.htm and the National Soccer Hall of Fame in 1989.[1]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Walter Dick - 1989 Inductee National Soccer Hall of Fame . 2023-12-19 . Walter Dick - 1989 Inductee National Soccer Hall of Fame . en.