Denis Doyle

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Dinny Doyle
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Full name Denis Doyle
Date of birth 1900
Place of birth Dublin, Ireland
Place of death Niagara Falls, New York, USA
Position(s) Wing Half
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1922–1927 Shamrock Rovers
1927 Philadelphia Celtic 10 (0)
1927–1929 Fall River F.C. 93 (0)
1929–1931 Pawtucket Rangers 49 (1)
1931 New York Yankees 9 (0)
International career
1926 Irish Free State 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Denis "Dinny" Doyle (born 1900, date of death unknown) was an Irish football wing half who played professionally in Ireland and the United States. He earned one cap with the Irish Free State national football team in 1926. He was born in Dublin.

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He joined Shamrock Rovers F.C. in 1922 and played in that year's FAI Cup final which they lost in a replay. He then moved back to centre-half until he left the club in 1927. That year, he moved to the USA with Bob Fullam where he signed with the Philadelphia Celtic of the American Soccer League. The team played only ten games before failing financially. He then transferred to the Fall River F.C. He won three league titles with the 'Marksmen'. He began the 1929-1930 season with the 'Marksmen', playing three games, before transferring to the Pawtucket Rangers. In 1931, he moved to the New York Yankees. [1] He spent his last years in Niagara Falls.

He won one cap for the Irish Free State against Italy in Turin on 21 March 1926.

He was part of the Rovers sides that won two leagues in the 1920s going through the entire season unbeaten. He was also part of the side that played in the club's opening fixtures at Glenmalure Park in 1926.

His father, Tommy Doyle, had played for the Hoops in the early years and his younger brother, also Tommy, played for Rovers after Dinny emigrated. A nephew, Jackie Mooney, won two FAI Cups with Rovers in the 1960s. Dinny's great grandson, Jason Doyle, played for Rovers during the 1991–1992 season. Dinny's brother, Christy (Kit), born 1904, had a son also named Christy who played in Toronto, New York and Chicago in the 1960s and had the honor of winning both the United States and Canadian amateur National Championships in the same year 1968. With the Chicago Kickers in July 1968 and the Toronto Royals in September 1968 before returning to Chicago in 1969 and rejoining the Kickers to win the title again in 1970. Now retired[ who? ] in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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  1. ↑ Jose, Colin (1998). American Soccer League, 1921-1931 (Hardback). The Scarecrow Press. ISBN   0-8108-3429-4. ().

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