Tommy McFarlane

Tommy McFarlane
Personal information
Place of birthScotland
Place of deathUnited States
Playing positionCenter Half
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
Partick Thistle
1921-1922Fall River United8(1)
1922-1924Bethlehem Steel28(2)
1924-1925Indiana Flooring18(1)
1925Sayles
1925-1927J&P Coats17(1)
National team
1925United States1(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Tommy McFarlane was a Scottish-American soccer center half who began his career in Scotland before moving to the United States. He earned one cap with the U.S. national team in 1925.

Club career

McFarlane began his career with Partick Thistle of the Scottish Football League. In 1921, he moved to the United States where he signed with the Fall River United of the American Soccer League. After one season, he moved to the Bethlehem Steel F.C. While he began the 1924-1925 season with Bethlehem, he moved to J&P Coats after only four games. McFarlane played eighteen games with J&P Coats, but was listed in June 1925 with amateur club Sayles.[1] That fall, McFarlane signed with J&P Coats and played with them through the end of the 1926-1927 season.[2]

National team

McFarlane earned one cap with the U.S. national team in a 1-0 loss to Canada on June 27, 1925.[3]

References

  1. June 13, 1925 The Globe
  2. Jose, Colin (1998). American Soccer League, 1921-1931 (Hardback). The Scarecrow Press. (ISBN 0-8108-3429-4).
  3. U.S. international results at RSSSF