Pawtucket Rangers

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J. & P. Coats was an American soccer club team of the J. & P. Coats Company based in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

The club played won the Rhode Island League in 1914 then was an inaugural member of the semi-pro Southern New England Soccer League. The club then joined the professional American Soccer League as an inaugural member.

After the first half of the 1928/29 season, the team ran into financial trouble and was bought by new management. The new owners renamed the team the Pawtucket Rangers.

The club left the original ASL sometime after the 1932 fall season and joined the New England Division of the new ASL that was formed in 1933/34.

The team won the Times Cup in 1919.

[edit] Year-by-year

Year	Division	League	Reg. Season	Playoffs	U.S. Open Cup
1913/14	N/A	RIL	1st	Champion	?
1914/15	N/A	SNESL	3rd	No playoff	Semifinals
1915/16	N/A	SNESL	Schedule not finished		?
1916/17	N/A	SNESL	3rd	No playoff	?
1917/18	N/A	SNESL	1st	Champion (no playoff)	?
1918/19	N/A	SNESL	Season cancelled due to WWI		Third round
1919/20	N/A	SNESL	?	?	Third round
1920/21	N/A	SNESL	3rd	No playoff	?
1921/22	1	ASL	2nd	No playoff	Fourth round
1922/23	1	ASL	1st	Champion (no playoff)	Semifinals
1923/24	1	ASL	4th	No playoff	First round
1924/25	1	ASL	7th	No playoff	Did not enter
1925/26	1	ASL	8th	No playoff	Semifinals
1926/27	1	ASL	9th	No playoff	?
1927/28	1	ASL	8th (1st half); 9th (2nd half)	Did not qualify	Semifinals
1928/29	N/A	ASL	8th (1st half); 3rd (2nd half)	No playoff	?
Fall 1929	N/A	ASL	5th	No playoff	N/A
1930	N/A	ACL/ASL	6th (Spring); 9th (Fall)	No playoff	Quarterfinals
1931	N/A	ASL	4th (Spring); 3rd (Fall)	No playoff	?
Spring 1932	N/A	ASL	4th?	No playoff	?
Fall 1932	N/A	ASL	2nd	No playoff	N/A
Spring 1933	N/A	?	?	?	Semifinals