Davey Brown
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | David R. Brown | ||
| Date of birth | November 18, 1898 | ||
| Place of birth | East Newark, New Jersey, United States | ||
| Date of death | September 17, 1970 (aged 71) | ||
| Place of death | Kearny, New Jersey, United States | ||
| Height | 5 ft 3 in (1.60 m) | ||
| Playing position | Forward | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1915–1916 | Ford | ||
| 1916–1918 | West Hudson A.A. | ? | (?) |
| 1918–1920 | Paterson F.C. | ? | (?) |
| 1920–1921 | Erie A.A. | ? | (?) |
| 1921–1923 | → Harrison F.C. | 36 | (16) |
| 1923–1924 | Newark Skeeters | 12 | (5) |
| 1924–1930 | New York Giants | 213 | (165) |
| 1928 | Brooklyn Wanderers (guest) | 3 | (0) |
| 1931 | New York Giants | 30 | (18) |
| 1932–1935 | Brooklyn F.C./Brooklyn Celtic | ||
| National team‡ | |||
| 1925–1926 | United States | 3 | (4) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 31 May 2006. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 22 June 2006 |
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David "Davey" Brown (November 18, 1898 in East Newark, New Jersey – September 17, 1970 in Kearny, New Jersey) was a former U.S. soccer forward. He spent most of his career playing for teams in New Jersey and New York, gaining his greatest fame with the New York Giants. He is a member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame.
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 Erie 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.
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