J. & P. Coats was an American soccer club founded in 1900 as the team of the Pawtucket, Rhode Island branch of the J. & P. Coats threadmaking company of Paisley, Scotland (following a 1952 merger this firm became part of the Coats Group ).
6-532: 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
12-408: The 1916–17 season went better than the previous one, it still left a lot to be desired. Two teams played eleven games ( J&P Coats and Crompton) and the rest varied from five to eight games completed. The 1917–18 season was again cancelled for many of the same reasons as the 1915–16 season, but this time the league awarded the championship to J&P Coats . The next year, 1918–19, the season
18-401: The league title based on a single table points system. However, the 1915–16 season introduced many of the problems that would plague the league until its demise. Several teams refused to travel to away games and weather caused the cancellation of others. Those circumstances resulted in the cancellation of the season at a now unknown point at which Fore River was topping the standings. While
24-609: 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. This article about a soccer club from Rhode Island is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Southern New England Soccer League The Southern New England Soccer League was a semi-professional soccer league based in New England which
30-454: Was cancelled entirely due to the loss of players to military service in World War I . While the league resumed play in 1919–20 , records have not allowed a complete reconstruction of the season. In the 1920–21 season , the league held what was its most successful season. Only one team played less than ten games, and it disbanded during the season. Most of the teams played at least thirteen with
36-518: Was established in 1914 and collapsed in 1921. During its short existence, it featured some of the top teams in the northeast United States . Dissatisfaction with league mismanagement led to the end of the SNESL in 1921 as several teams moved to the newly created American Soccer League . The Southern New England Soccer League's first season, 1914–15 , went well with the New Bedford Whalers taking
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