Davey Brown

Brown began his professional career with Ford before moving to West Hudson A.A. for the 1917–1918 National Association Foot Ball League (NAFBL) season. When West Hudson withdrew from the NAFBL at the end of the season, Brown moved to Paterson F.C. where he spent the next two seasons. At the end of the 1919–1920 season, Paterson withdrew from the league despite finishing in the top half of the standings each season. Brown then moved to Erie A.A. for the 1920–1921 NAFBL season. At the end of that season, Erie A.A. switched to the newly established American Soccer League (ASL) and changed its name to Harrison Soccer Club (S.C.). In various publications the team was also known as Harrison S.C. and Harrison Field Club (F.C.). Regardless of the name, Brown remained with this team through the end of the 1922–1923 season. He then spent a single season with the Newark Skeeters in the Skeeters’ first season in the ASL. In 1924, Brown moved to the New York Giants where he gained his greatest fame three years later. In the 1926–1927 season, he scored fifty-two goals in thirty-eight games, one of the most productive seasons by any player in an American outdoor league. However, that season was an anomaly. While Brown was a consistent goal scorer, he more typically would score between eleven and twenty-eight goals a season. With the onset of the Soccer War in 1928, Brown's career becomes erratic. When the Giants were suspended by the ASL, Brown moved to the Brooklyn Wanderers…