Johnny Harvey

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Johnny Harvey
Personal information
Place of birth Scotland
Playing position(s) Outside right
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1923–1927 J&P Coats 127 (22)
1927–1928 Fall River Marksmen 43 (8)
1928–1929 Pawtucket Rangers 105 (21)
1931 New Bedford Whalers 4 (0)
1931 Fall River Marksmen 5 (1)
1931 Pawtucket Rangers 18 (4)
Total302(56)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Johnny Harvey was an early-twentieth-century Scottish-American association football forward.

Records of Harvey’s career are fragmentary, but he played for J&P Coats during the 1915–1916 Southern New England Soccer League season. In 1923, he was back with J&P Coats as it played in the American Soccer League. In 1927, he began the season with Coats, played eleven games, then moved to the Fall River Marksmen for the remainder of the season. He returned to J&P Coats which was renamed the Pawtucket Rangers under new ownership. In 1931, he jumped through three teams, the New Bedford Whalers, Marksmen and Rangers.

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