Philip Slone
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Full name | Philip Slone | ||||||||||||||||
Date of birth | January 20, 1907 | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth |
New York, New York , United States | ||||||||||||||||
Date of death | November 4, 2003 | (aged 96)||||||||||||||||
Place of death | West Palm Beach, Florida, United States | ||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
1928–1929 | New York Hakoah | ||||||||||||||||
1929–1930 | New York Giants | 27 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
1930–1931 | Hakoah All-Stars | 62 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
1933–1940 |
New York Brookhattan | ||||||||||||||||
International career | |||||||||||||||||
1930 | United States | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Philip Slone (January 20, 1907 – November 4, 2003) was a U.S.
American Soccer League. He was a member of the U.S team at the 1930 FIFA World Cup and is a member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame
.
Youth
Slone grew up in
soccer. After high school, he attended St. John’s University
. He graduated in 1929 with a degree in law.
Club career
While in high school,
Eastern Soccer League (ESL), they invited Slone, then in college to play with them. Slone signed with New York Hakoah of the ESL in 1928, beginning his twelve-year professional career. That first season was difficult. As he remembers it, "Life was hectic then. I played professional soccer on the weekends, worked during the week and went to evening classes at St. John's University Law School."[1]
A little background is required to understand the next two years of Slone’s career. The ESL was created during the “Soccer War” which pitted the
USFA. After three ASL teams were expelled from the league, they joined several other teams to form the ESL. This league lasted a season and a half before merging with the ASL at the end of the “Soccer War”. New York Hakoah was owned by Maurice Vandeweghe, who also owned the New York Giants
of the ASL. The merger of the ESL and ASL meant that Vandeweghe now owned to teams in the same league. League rules forbid that, so Vandeweghe sold Hakoah. When he did, Slone jumped to Vandeweghe's other team, the Giants.
In June 1930, Slone left the U.S. to play in the
American Soccer League
. Slone continued to play with Brookhattan in the second ASL until his retirement in 1940.
National team
Slone earned one
cap with the U.S. national team in 1930 when he traveled to Uruguay for the 1930 FIFA World Cup. However, his cap did not come during the finals, but in an August 17, 1930 loss to Brazil following the cup.[2]
Slone was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame in 1986.[3] He died in West Palm Beach, Florida in 2003. At the time of his death, he was the last surviving member of the inaugural American World Cup team.[4]
References
- ^ Philip Slone - The Lone Survivor[dead link]
- ^ USA - Details of International Matches 1885-1969
- ^ "Philip Slone - 1986 Inductee | National Soccer Hall of Fame". Philip Slone - 1986 Inductee | National Soccer Hall of Fame. Retrieved 2023-12-19.
- ^ fifa.com
https://www.fifa.com/theclub/news/newsid=71875/ Archived 2018-03-01 at the Wayback Machine