Archie Stark
Archibald McPherson Stark ( born December 21, 1897 in Glasgow, † 27 May 1985 in Kearny, New Jersey) was an American football player.
When he was 13 years old, Stark moved with his family from Scotland to West Hudson in New Jersey and started playing in the local youth football team, at the time still as a defender. A year later, when he was 14, he went to the Scottish -Americans, for whom he played for four years before moving in 1916 to Babcock and Wilcox, for which he played, however, only a year.
1917 Stark was then drafted into the United States Army and served in France. After he returned from the war in 1919, but he went to Paterson FC, with whom he could reach the final of the National Challenge Cup, there against Bethlehem Steel FC lost with 0:2. After this defeat Stark went with the Bethlehem Steel FC on a tour of Denmark and Sweden. He then moved to Erie AA NAFBL team, for whom he played until 1921. When the American Soccer League was established and then the NAFBL broke up, he went to New York Field Club, for whom he played for three years, scoring 45 goals in the time in 69 league games.
After 1924 Bethlehem Steel F. C. moved, followed by his most successful period. In his first season he scored 44 league matches there in 67 matches. Overall, he was in his time at Bethlehem Steel FC the U.S. Open Cup in 1926, the championship in 1926/27 and the Ligacup win in 1928 and achieved in this time in 207 competition games 218 goals. 1930, the team of Bethlehem Steel was dissolved, and Stark moved to the Newark Americans.
After the ASL was dissolved in 1933 because of economic difficulties and a semi-professional league was founded in succession under the same name, Stark was still playing for the Kearny Irish -Americans, with whom in 1934 he again won the title and was top scorer of the season.
Stark played twice for the national football team of the United States, where he scored 4 goals. The nomination for the World Cup selection in the USA in 1930 he canceled for business reasons.
1950 Stark was inducted into the Soccer Hall of Fame. He keeps up with his 67 goals in the 1924/25 season to date the record for most top-flight shot in a season and is the top scorer in the history of ASL.